浙江马鞍树 Maackia chekiangensis

  • Scientific Name: Maackia chekiangensis S.S.Chien
  • Ref: Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Bot. Ser. 8:132. 1932
  • Chinese Common Name: 浙江马鞍树 Zhèjiāng mǎ’ān∙shù, 浙怀槐 Zhè huáihuái
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Genus: Maackia
  • Distribution: Forests; below 500 m. Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.
  • Photo: 09/12/2013, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Hubei
Shrubs, 1-1.5 m tall; branchlets gray-brown, lenticellate, smooth, glabrous. Leaves 13-20 cm; leaflets 9-11, opposite; petiolule 1-2 mm; blades ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, 2.1-6.3 × 1.1-3 cm, sparsely light brown hairy abaxially, gla­brous adaxially, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Racemes 8-14 cm; rachis light brown pubescent. Flowers dense; pedicel slen­der, 2-3.5 mm; bracteoles subulate, 1.3-2 mm. Calyx campan­ulate, 2.1-2.4 mm; teeth to 1.3 mm, brown adnate hairy. Co­rolla white; standard oblong, 3-5 × 1.2-1.7 mm, slightly emar­ginate at apex, claw ca. 0.6 mm; keels oval-oblong, spurred at base. Ovary narrowly oblong, shortly stalked, densely brown hairy. Legumes elliptic, ovate, or oblong, 2.7-4 × 1.1-1.5 cm, beaked at apex, narrowly winged along sutures, brown pubes­cent; fruit neck absent; stalk ca. 3 mm. Seed 1, yellow-brown. Fl. Jun, fr. Sep. (Flora of China)

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