Astragalus nangxianensis P.C.Li & C.C.Ni

Plants ca. 30 cm tall. Stems branched in upper part, striate, sparsely hairy, glabrescent with age. Leaves 5-7 cm; stipules ca. 4 mm, narrowly triangular, free from petiole, ciliate; petiole and rachis sparsely hairy; leaflets in 13 or 14 pairs, narrowly ovate, 13-15 × 2-3 mm, abaxially sparsely appressed hairy to subglabrous, adaxially glabrous, apex obtuse. Racemes many flowered; peduncle longer than leaves, sparsely hairy. Calyx campanulate, ca. 4 mm, covered with white and black hairs; teeth ca. 1 mm. Petals lilac; standard ca. 8 mm, limb orbicular; wings ca. 7 mm; keel ca. 6 mm. Ovary stipitate, sparsely hairy. Legumes ovoid, ca. 5 mm, ca. 2 mm high, sparsely hairy, in­completely 2-locular.