Astragalus acceptus Podlech & L.R.Xu

Plants 4-5 cm tall, acaulescent, densely caespitose, only white hairy. Leaves 2-6 cm; stipules 5-8 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 3 mm, densely covered with ± symmetrically or asym­metrically bifurcate, subappressed hairs 1-1.5 mm; petiole 1-3 cm, like rachis slender, densely covered with ± medifixed, sub­appressed hairs 0.4-0.6 mm; leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs, 4-8 × 1.8-3 mm, abaxially rather densely and adaxially sparsely covered with medifixed, appressed hairs ca. 1 mm. Racemes sessile, 1-or 2-flowered; bracts ca. 7 mm, sparsely covered with basifixed hairs 0.8-1 mm. Calyx 9-10 mm, densely covered with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed, flexuous, tangled, white hairs 0.7-1 mm; teeth 2.5-3 mm. Petals yellowish when dry; standard oblong, ca. 22 × 6-7 mm, slightly constricted below middle, apex emarginate; wings ca. 19 mm, limbs narrowly ob­long, laterally incised; keel ca. 18 mm. Ovary sessile, white hairy. Legumes unknown.