Indigofera penduloides Y.Y.Fang & C.Z.Zheng

Shrubs. Stems pale grayish brown, terete, ca. 6 mm thick, with lenticels; branches purplish red, angulate, with spreading brown and submedifixed 2-branched trichomes, glabrescent. Stipules linear, 3-5 mm. Leaves 12-22 cm, 17-23-foliolate; petiole and rachis adaxially grooved, with sparse brown sub­medifixed trichomes; petiole 2.3-5 cm; stipels not visible; petiolules ca. 2 mm; leaflet blades ovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5-4.5 × 0.8-1.6 cm, both surfaces with appressed medifixed trichomes, secondary veins 6-8 on each side of mid­vein and adaxially obvious, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex obtuse to emarginate and mucronate. Racemes 30-45 cm, usually drooping; peduncle 1.5-4 cm, striate, with spreading brown submedifixed trichomes; bracts lanceolate, ca. 3 mm. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Calyx tube 1.2-1.5 mm; teeth triangu­lar, ca. 1.5 mm. Corolla standard broadly oblong to obovate-oblong, 12-13 × ca. 6 mm, outside with appressed grayish brown tri­chomes; wings ca. 11 × 2.5 mm; keel 12-13 × ca. 3 mm, spurred at middle. Stamens 1.1-1.2 cm; anthers ellipsoid, gla­brous. Ovary, style, and stigma all hairy; ovules 12 or 13. Fl. Sep, fr. unknown.