Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fabaceae | Dalbergia
10. Dalbergia hancei Bentham; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 4(Suppl.): 44. 1860.
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Woody climbers. Branches slender; young shoots slightly pubescent; branchlets sometimes hooked or twisted. Leaves 5-8 cm; stipules caducous; lanceolate; membranous; leaflets 7-13; narrowly oblong or obovate-oblong; 10-20 x 5-10 mm; both surfaces initially sparsely appressed pubescent; soon glabrous adaxially; persistently pubescent abaxially; base rounded or broadly cuneate; apex obtuse or rounded; emarginate. Flowers small; in axillary; compact; short panicles; bracts early deciduous; scaly; boat-shaped; imbricate; enclosing young inflorescence. Pedicel 1-2 mm; bracteoles deciduous; rusty puberulent; basal minute; lanceolate; epicalycine pair ovate; enclosing base of calyx tube. Calyx broadly campanulate; ca. 3 mm; outside rusty puberulent; teeth broadly triangular; very short; ciliate; obtuse or rounded except for lowest; lowest rather longer; acute. Corolla greenish white; fragrant; ca. 6 mm; rather long clawed; standard elliptic; emarginate; base of blade truncate; auriculate; attenuate to broad claw; wings and keel oblong. Stamens 9 or sometimes 10; monadelphous; sometimes with a free vexillary stamen. Ovary shortly stipitate; linear; glabrous except for ciliate ventral suture; style short; stigma small. Legume distinctly stipitate; oblong or strap-shaped; compressed; 3-7 x 0.8-1.4 cm; glabrous; 1-seeded; rarely 2-4-seeded. Seeds reniform; compressed; ca. 8 x 5 mm. Fl. Mar-May; fr. Jun-Nov.
? Among bushes on mountain slopes; by streams along valleys; 200-1500 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Zhejiang.