Astragalus nicolai Boriss.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Astragalus

Characteristics

Plants 15-28(-40) cm tall, acaulescent, white hairy. Leaves 15-36 cm; stipules whitish, distinctly longitudinally nerved, (6-)10-20 mm, adnate to petiole for 3-5 mm, lower ones cili­ate, upper ones densely hairy; petiole 4-10 cm, like rachis densely covered with spreading very unequal hairs 0.5-2.5 mm; leaflets in 15-29 pairs, ± elliptic, 8-24 × 5-12 mm, both sur­faces densely appressed hairy, apex obtuse to subacute. Ra­cemes loosely 2-7-flowered; peduncle 1-7 cm, spreading hairy; bracts 8-20 mm, hairy. Calyx 13-21 mm, ± densely long spreading hairy; teeth unequal, 4-9 mm. Petals yellow, hairy; standard elliptic to obovate, 23-28 mm, apex emarginate; wings 19-23 mm; keel 15-18 mm. Legumes sessile, 15-17 mm, 6-10 mm high and 5-7 mm wide, with a curved beak ca. 2 mm, 2-locular; valves leathery, loosely spreading hairy.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.28
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Distribution

Astragalus nicolai world distribution map, present in China and Kazakhstan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:478850-1
WFO ID wfo-0000198488
COL ID HZDF
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Synonyms

Astragalus songoricus Astragalus nicolai Astragalus xinjiangensis Astragalus songolicus