鹰嘴豆族 ying zui dou zu
Bao Bojian[1]; Nicholas J. Turland[2]
鹰嘴豆属 ying zui dou shu
Perennial or annual herbs, spiny and glandular-hairy. Leaves paripinnate or inparipinnate, with or without tendril at apex; stipules absent; stipules toothed; leaflets 3 to many, serrate at margin. Flower single or 2–5 in axillary raceme; calyx somewhat gibbous at base, teeth equal or not. Stamens diadelphous. Style glabrous, curved. Pods inflated, glandular-hairy, with 1–10 seeds. Seeds beaked, subspheroidal.
About 40 species: mainly in C Asia; two species (one introduced) in China.
1b. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, margin dentate in distal half .............................. 2. C. microphyllum
鹰嘴豆 ying zui dou
Annual or annual herbs, 1–2 m high; stem erect, much branched, glandular-hairy. Leaves with 7–17 leaflets; stipules leaflike, unequal toothed; leaflets elliptic, 7–17 × 3–10 mm, glandular-hairy, margin dentate throughout. Flower single or 2 axillary; pedicel 5–25 mm. Corolla white, light blue or purple-red, 8–10 mm, glandular-hairy; calyx campanulate, deeply 5 toothed, glandular-hairy. Pods inflated, ovate, pendulous, ca. 2–1 cm, pubescent and glandular-hairy, with 1–4 seeds. Seeds white pubescent. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.
Cultivated. Gansu, Hebei, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Taiwan, Xinjiang [widely cultivated elsewhere; of cultivated origin].
小叶鹰嘴豆 xiao ye ying zui dou
??Cicer jacquemontii Jaubert & Spach; ??C. soongaricum Steph.
Annual herbs, 15–40 cm high; stem erect, much branched, glandular-hairy. Leaves tendril; stipules 5–7 divided, glandular-hairy; leaflets 6–15 paired, leathery, obovate-cuneate, mucronate at apex, 4–12 × 3–7 mm, glandular-hairy on both surfaces, margin dentate in distal half. Flower single, axillary; pedicel 5–25 mm, glandular-hairy; calyx deeply 5 toothed, ca. 1.2 cm, densely glandular-hairy. Corolla large, ca. 2.4 cm, blue-purple or light blue. Pods elliptic, 2.5–3.5 cm, densely white pubescent. Seeds elliptic, with a mucro at an end, ca. 2.5 mm.
Hill slopes, river banks; 1600–4600 m. Xinjiang, Xizang [Afghanistan, India (Punjab), Kashmir, Nepal{Polunin et al. 1197, E}, Pakistan].