Astragalus hotanensis S.B.Ho

Plants 30-50 cm tall. Stems several, ascending to erect, 3-5 mm thick, near base furnished with globose, white villous buds. Leaves 1-3 cm, upper subsessile, lower with a distinct petiole; stipules 1-3 mm, white hairy; leaflets 3 or in upper leaves sometimes only 1, narrowly elliptic, 10-20 × 3-5 mm, both surfaces loosely covered with medifixed, appressed hairs, apex acute. Racemes loosely 6-8-flowered; peduncle 3-5 cm, appressed white hairy; bracts 1.5-2 mm. Calyx 4-6 mm, cam­panulate, densely appressed white hairy; teeth ca. 1 mm. Petals whitish pink, purplish when dry; standard obovate-pandurate, 8-12 × ca. 5 mm, apex emarginate, slightly constricted below middle; wings 7-11 mm; keel 7-10 mm. Legumes (unripe) ses­sile, linear, upcurved, 10-15 mm, with white appressed hairs.