Flemingia lineata (Linneaus 1753:, 1054) Aiton, 1812

8. Flemingia lineata View in CoL (L.) W.T. Aiton (1812: 350). Hedysarum lineatum L. (1753: 1054). Type:— INDIA. Linne 921.25 ( Holotype,

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Shrublets, erect, many branched. Branchlets cylindric, adpressed pubescent when young, becoming glabrous or subglabrous. Petiole 0.7–3 cm long, wingless, pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, 0.6–1 cm long, apex long mucronate, usually persistent. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets thinly leathery; terminal leaflet obovate to obovate-oblong, 2–5.5 cm long, 0.8–2 cm wide, both surfaces densely adpressed villous when young, gradually glabrescent, with sparse sessile glands; basal veins 3, lateral veins pinnate, 3–4 pairs; base cuneate, apex obtuse with mucro; lateral leaflets smaller, obliquely elliptic, sessile or subsessile. Inflorescences racemose, lax usually panicled, axillary or terminal; inflorescence axis 2.5–6.5 cm long, slender, villous or clothed with glandular hairs; bracts linear, small, persistent. Flowers 5–7 mm long. Calyx pubescent; lobes lanceolate, longer than tube. Corolla longer than calyx; standard almost orbicular, clawed, auriculate; wings oblong, clawed, one with auricle; keel almost semiorbicular, clawed, with inconspicuous auricle on one side, apex mucronate. Pods 8–12 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, villous. Seeds 2, black, suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam.

Iconography citation: — Wei (1995: 320): plate 76, figure 1; Pham (1999: 969), figure 3881.

Ecology and phenology: — Flemingia lineata grows in mountain slopes, plains and roadsides at low attitudes. Flowering starts from December to February, fruiting from February to May.

Distribution: — Myanmar, China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Notes: — Flemingia lineata is clearly different from all the other Flemingia species in Indochinese region by having a panicle inflorescence with flowers usually lax.

Representative specimens: — MYANMAR. Prome: Malloon , Irrawaddy river, 1826, N.Wallich 5752 (K001122014) . THAILAND. Ang Thong: 6 March 1971, J.F.Maxwell 71-113 (AAU) ; February 1924, A.F.G.Kerr 8381 (AAU); December 1929, Put 2554 (AAU); Nonthaburi, 9 January 1991, P.Puudjaa 24 (BKF). Chieng Mai: Chiang Dao , 23 December 1994, J.F.Maxwell 1302 (BKF) ; Lampang: Muang Bahn , 28 March 1997, J.F.Maxwell 293 (BKF) . VIETNAM. Vinh Phuc: Phu Lo, Bois 488 (P). Bac Ninh: Dap Cau, Brousmiche 322 (P) . LAOS. Vientiane: Ban Keun , Tixier s.n. (P) ; Ban Hom, Vidal 1159 (P). Khammouane: Ban Na Tan , Petelot 4989 (P). Champassak: Bassac ,

Thorel s.n. (P). CAMBODIA. Kandal: Phnom Penh, Talmy 126 (P). CHINA. Yunnan: Xishuangbana, Y.H.Li 310 (KUN); H.F.Sun 23 (KUN).