Lespedeza tomentosa

Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Maxim., Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 2: 376 (1873) (syn: Desmodium tomentosum (Thunb.) DC.; Hedysarum coriaceum Poir.; Hedysarum tomentosum Thunb.; Hedysarum villosum Willd.; Lespedeza glomerata Hornem.; Lespedeza macrophylla Bunge; Lespedeza tomentosa var. globiracemosa S.L.Tung & Z.Lu; Lespedeza villosa Pers.; Meibomia tomentosa (Thunb.) Kuntze);
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W. China to Indian Subcontinent, Mongolia to Central & S. Japan: Assam, India, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Pakistan, Primorye, Tibet, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO;
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Sieb. ; Maxim. Synops. 50 ; petiole short, leaflets large obovate-oblong densely downy beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes, pod sessile included. Hedysarum tomentosum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 286. L. glomerata, Hornem. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 350.

WESTERN HIMALAYA, temperate region, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth.— DISTRIB. China, Japan, Korea.

Stems 2-3 ft., erect, densely pubescent. Leaves distant ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, obtuse, thick, subcoriaceous, at first thinly silky above, densely silky, and the veins raised beneath ; petioles 1-1/2 in. ; stipules subulate, persistent. Racemes distinctly peduncled, 2-4 in, long, moderately close, rarely congested; sessile (L. glomerata, Horn.) ; pedicels very short. Calyx 1/6-1/5 in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, 3-4 times the tube. Corolla whitish, half as long again as the calyx ; standard not longer than the wings and keel. Pod shorter than the calyx, oblong, pubescent.—Very near L. hirta, Elliott, of North America.

(Attributions: IBIS Flora (Flora of British India))
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SK 3231 15 September 2021: 7 very high res. images.