taxonID	type	description	language	source
A97F3C37B5DC537F81C8584B801B9713.taxon	description	Description. Herb perennial, 50 – 150 cm tall, stem erect, climbing, covered with fine soft hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves even-pinnate, 8 – 15 cm; branched tendrils presented at apex with 3 or 4 branches; stipules semi-sagittate, 8 – 10 mm; leaflets 7 – 9 pairs, alternate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, 17 – 25 × 6 – 9 mm, papery, apex obtuse or acuminate, distinctly mucronate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, upper surface sparsely covered with short and soft hairs, lower surface covered with short hairs with veins densely hairy; veins prominent and raised on lower surface, petiolule ca. 1 mm. Inflorescence a raceme, about the same length as leaves, 8 – 15 cm long, with – 15 flowers; bracts 5 – 7 mm × 4 – 5 mm, rhombic, covered with short and soft hairs. Flowers secund, slightly drooping, ca. 1 cm in length, pedicel ca. 1 mm; calyx obliquely campanulate, hairy; lobes 5, lanceolate, 1 – 3 mm long; corolla pale greenish-white at first, gradually turning yellow-brown, dark yellow or dark orange; standard ovate, ca. 8 – 10 mm × 4 – 5 mm, with a broad claw at base, concave at apex, margins constricted in the middle; wings nearly equal in length to the standard, obliquely ovate, auriculated, with a claw 4 – 5 mm at base; keels ca. 7 – 9 mm long, apex blunt, shortly auriculated. Ovary linear, glabrous 4 – 5 ovulued; the style hairy towards upper part; stigma capitate. Pods oblong, 20 – 30 × 4 – 5 mm. Seeds 3 – 5 × 3.5 – 4 mm, oblate-spheroid, brown, with black speckles. Flowering and fruiting June – August. Figs 1, 3, 4.	en	Yang, Bo, Yang, Jun, Wei, Siyu, Zhang, Hongmei, Li, Xiaowei (2025): Vicia liupanshanensis (Fabaceae), a new plant species from northwestern China. PhytoKeys 259: 217-227, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.154664
A97F3C37B5DC537F81C8584B801B9713.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet derives from the name of the mountain range (Liupanshan) where this species was discovered.	en	Yang, Bo, Yang, Jun, Wei, Siyu, Zhang, Hongmei, Li, Xiaowei (2025): Vicia liupanshanensis (Fabaceae), a new plant species from northwestern China. PhytoKeys 259: 217-227, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.154664
A97F3C37B5DC537F81C8584B801B9713.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Vicia liupanshanensis occurs only at elevations of 1900 – 2300 m, in Laolongtan, Daxue Mountains, and Migang Mountains in Jingyuan Countyand Longde County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Zhuanglang County, Gansu Province, in China. It is generally found in alpine scrubs and hillside grasslands. (Fig. 2).	en	Yang, Bo, Yang, Jun, Wei, Siyu, Zhang, Hongmei, Li, Xiaowei (2025): Vicia liupanshanensis (Fabaceae), a new plant species from northwestern China. PhytoKeys 259: 217-227, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.154664
