taxonID	type	description	language	source
1839F096BFB75EC1AC8AD52B88F9D469.taxon	materials_examined	Type. China. Hubei: Shennongjia National Park, 31 ° 26 ' 39.96 " N, 110 ° 16 ' 00.34 " E, 2880 m elev., 9 June 2019, D. G. Zhang & Q. Liu 19060901 (holo: KUN barcode 1347953!; iso: JIU!).	en	Chen, Jun-Tong, Zhang, Dai-Gui, Lv, Zhen-Yu, Huang, Xian-Han, Liu, Peng-Ju, Yang, Jia-Ning, Yang, Jing-Yuan, Tojibaev, Komiljon, Deng, Tao, Sun, Hang (2020): Oxytropis shennongjiaensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Hubei, Central China. PhytoKeys 149: 117-128, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533
1839F096BFB75EC1AC8AD52B88F9D469.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Compared with the published species of Oxytropis in China, O. shennongjiaensis appears to be closely similar to O. sitaipaiensis, from which it can be distinguished by its stems with less conspicuous internodes and 5 - 15 mm internodes (stems with two or more conspicuous internodes in O. sitaipaiensis); stipules ovate, 7 - 10 mm long, herbaceous (stipules narrowly triangular, 3 - 5 mm long, membranous in O. sitaipaiensis); bracts ovate, 6 - 8 mm long (bracts subulate, ca. 2 mm long in O. sitaipaiensis); calyx 9 - 11 x 2 - 4 mm (calyx ca. 4 x 3 mm in O. sitaipaiensis); pale yellow to white corolla; beak 3 mm long (purplish corolla; beak ca. 1.5 mm long in O. sitaipaiensis). Table 1 provides detailed morphological comparisons with similar species.	en	Chen, Jun-Tong, Zhang, Dai-Gui, Lv, Zhen-Yu, Huang, Xian-Han, Liu, Peng-Ju, Yang, Jia-Ning, Yang, Jing-Yuan, Tojibaev, Komiljon, Deng, Tao, Sun, Hang (2020): Oxytropis shennongjiaensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Hubei, Central China. PhytoKeys 149: 117-128, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533
1839F096BFB75EC1AC8AD52B88F9D469.taxon	description	Description. Perennial herbs, 10 - 15 cm tall. Yellowish-brown, cylindrical roots, up to 25 cm long, with lateral roots. Caulescent from a multi-headed caudex, slightly subterranean sometimes rhizomatous. Stems sprawling, 3 - 15 cm long, basally with persistent stipules; nodes of stems slightly swollen; internodes 5 - 15 mm long, invested with sparse, white trichomes. Leaves (4 -) 6 - 9 (- 11) cm long, 13 - 17 (- 19) - foliolate; leaflets ovate, 5 - 11 x 2 - 4 mm, apex acuminate, with sparse, subappressed white trichomes, abaxially mid-vein slightly raised (obvious after drying), with denser trichomes along vein; dark purplish-red or green rachis, with sparse white trichomes; stipules ovate, 7 - 10 x 3 - 4 mm, herbaceous, basally connate, apex acuminate, abaxially sparsely hairy with white trichomes, adaxially glabrous, margins scarious, ciliate with black and white trichomes. Racemes rather lax, 3 - 6 - flowered; peduncles 2.5 - 4.5 cm long, erect, villous, with white trichomes, sparsely intermixed with black trichomes below, with densely black trichomes above. Bracts ovate, 6 - 8 x 2 - 3 mm, membranous, with sparse, dark brown trichomes intermixed with white trichomes abaxially. Calyx campanulate, 9 - 11 x 2 - 4 mm, with dark brown trichomes sparsely intermixed with white trichomes outside; lobes subulate, 4 - 5 mm long, as long as or sometimes slightly shorter than tube. Pale yellow to white corolla; standard 16 - 18 mm long, lamina broadly ovate, 12 - 13 x 10 - 11 mm, apex emarginate to 2 - lobed, margins slightly undulated entire or with irregular repand teeth; wings 12 - 15 mm, lamina obovate, 7 x 4 mm long, apex obtuse, claw 4 - 5 mm long; keel 15 mm long, beak 3 mm long. Ovary linear, with dense white trichomes. Legumes stipitate (stipe 5 - 7 mm long), oblong-ellipsoid, 20 - 25 x 5 - 7 mm, erect, inflated and slightly flattened, with sparsely white trichomes, beak 3 - 5 mm long.	en	Chen, Jun-Tong, Zhang, Dai-Gui, Lv, Zhen-Yu, Huang, Xian-Han, Liu, Peng-Ju, Yang, Jia-Ning, Yang, Jing-Yuan, Tojibaev, Komiljon, Deng, Tao, Sun, Hang (2020): Oxytropis shennongjiaensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Hubei, Central China. PhytoKeys 149: 117-128, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533
1839F096BFB75EC1AC8AD52B88F9D469.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Shennongjia National Park to which the species is endemic. The Chinese name is 神农架棘豆, shen nong jia ji dou in Chinese phonetic transcription.	en	Chen, Jun-Tong, Zhang, Dai-Gui, Lv, Zhen-Yu, Huang, Xian-Han, Liu, Peng-Ju, Yang, Jia-Ning, Yang, Jing-Yuan, Tojibaev, Komiljon, Deng, Tao, Sun, Hang (2020): Oxytropis shennongjiaensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Hubei, Central China. PhytoKeys 149: 117-128, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533
1839F096BFB75EC1AC8AD52B88F9D469.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. The new species is currently known only from the Shennongjia National Park (Figure 4), Hubei, China, at an elevation of 2,880 m. It grows in barren rock crevices at the top of a mountain together with Polygonum macrophyllum D. Don (Polygonaceae), Primula sp. (Primulaceae), Carex sp. (Cyperaceae), Chrysanthemum oreastrum Hance (Asteraceae), Dracocephalum rupestre Hance (Lamiaceae) and Meconopsis quintuplinervia Regel (Papaveraceae) etc.	en	Chen, Jun-Tong, Zhang, Dai-Gui, Lv, Zhen-Yu, Huang, Xian-Han, Liu, Peng-Ju, Yang, Jia-Ning, Yang, Jing-Yuan, Tojibaev, Komiljon, Deng, Tao, Sun, Hang (2020): Oxytropis shennongjiaensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Hubei, Central China. PhytoKeys 149: 117-128, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.149.49533
