Oxytropis biflora P.C.Li

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Oxytropis

Characteristics

Herbs, 2.5-3 cm tall, acaulescent, from a multiheaded cau­dex, loosely caespitose. Stipules with a triangular-ovate dis­tinct part, herbaceous, with sparse white and black trichomes, very shortly adnate to petiole, basally connate. Leaves 1.5-5 cm, 7-13-foliolate; petiole and rachis with sparse long tri­chomes; leaf­let blades oblong, 2.5-4 × ca. 1.5 mm, both sur­faces with spreading dense long trichomes, base rounded, apex acute. Ra­cemes 2-or 3-flowered; peduncle 2-6 cm, subequal to or longer than leaves, with dense long trichomes; bracts narrowly lan­ceolate. Calyx subcylindric, 6-7 mm, with black and white long trichomes; lobes as long as tube. Corolla white; standard 7-9 mm, lamina broadly ovate, apex emarginate; wings slightly shorter than standard, apex emarginate; keel slightly shorter than wings, beak ca. 0.5 mm. Legume stipitate; stipe ca. 4 mm; body oblong-cylindric when young, densely white vil­lous. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Distribution

Oxytropis biflora world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:511326-1
WFO ID wfo-0000198943
COL ID 4BLYY
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Synonyms

Oxytropis biflora