Astragalus sabuletorum Ledeb.

Plants 7-20 cm tall, nearly acaulescent. Stems of current year at most up to 2 cm, very densely covered with appressed, medifixed, white hairs 0.8-1 mm. Leaves (4-)7-12(-17) cm; stipules ca. 5 mm, adnate to petiole for 2-3 mm, densely covered with appressed to subappressed white hairs; petiole (1.5-)3-7 cm, with rachis densely hairy like stem; leaflets in 5-9 pairs, 7-16(-22) × 3-7(-9) mm, densely covered on both surfaces with appressed, silky, white hairs. Racemes 3-4 cm, densely 6-12-flowered; peduncles 5-16 cm, mostly shorter than leaves, loosely to rather densely white hairy like stem; bracts 3-5(-7) mm, sparsely white hairy, especially at margins with basi­fixed hairs. Calyx initially tubular, becoming inflated cylindric-ovoid, 8-11(-12) mm, densely covered with appressed to sub­appressed, asymmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to even partly subbasifixed, white hairs ca. 1 mm; teeth (2-)3-4 mm. Petals pink; standard obovate, 18-20 mm, slightly con­stricted below middle, apex emarginate; wings 15-16 mm; keel 13-14 mm. Legumes shortly stipitate, 9-11 mm, ca. 3 mm wide, with a straight, subulate beak 1-2 mm, 2-locular; valves densely appressed white hairy.