Astragalus pseudochypogaeus S.B.Ho

Plants 6-10 cm tall, subacaulescent, only white hairy. Stems ca. 1 cm, densely covered with subappressed, extremely asymmetrically bifurcate to subbasifixed hairs 1-1.8 mm. Leaves 5-10 cm; stipules loosely to rather densely hairy like stem; petiole as long as rachis, like rachis densely covered with subappressed to partly slightly spreading, nearly symmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate hairs 1-1.8 mm; leaflets in 3-6 pairs, obovate, 8-13 × 4-8 mm, abaxially rather densely and adaxially loosely covered with ± medifixed, subappressed hairs 1.2-2.5 mm. Bracts 7-8 mm, with strongly asymmetri­cally bifurcate hairs. Flowers crowded around base of leaves. Calyx 10-12 mm, densely covered with subappressed to as­cending, strongly asymmetrically bifurcate hairs up to 2 mm; teeth 4-6 mm. Petals whitish reddish; standard oblong, 15-16 × 4-5 mm, apex retuse; wings 12-14 mm; keel 9-10 mm. Leg­umes (immature) 10-15 mm, with a slightly curved beak 4-7 mm; valves spreading hairy.