Astragalus hebecarpus S.S.Cheng ex S.B.Ho

Plants 10-15 cm tall, covered with subappressed, sym­metrically or asymmetrically bifurcate, only white hairs 1-2 mm. Stems 1-2 cm, densely hairy. Leaves 7-15 cm; stipules 5-7 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 2 mm, hairy; petiole 3-6 cm, like rachis loosely to rather densely hairy; leaflets in 6-9 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 5-20 × 1.5-5 mm, both surfaces loosely to rather densely hairy. Racemes 4-or 5-flowered; peduncle 1-1.5 cm, hairy; bracts 3-4 mm, with mostly basifixed hairs. Calyx 8-9 mm, rather densely hairy; teeth ca. 2 mm. Petals pale yel­low; standard narrowly elliptic, ca. 15 × 4 mm, apex emargi­nate; wings ca. 13 mm; keel ca. 12 mm. Legumes ca. 15 mm, 6-7 mm high and ca. 2 mm wide, with a subulate beak ca. 1 mm, incompletely 2-locular; valves rather densely covered with subappressed to ascending, flexuous-tangled, extremely asym­metrically bifurcate hairs up to 2.5 mm.