Astragalus sciadophorus Franch.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Astragalus

Characteristics

Plants ca. 15 cm tall. Stem ca. 8 cm, slender, branched, loosely covered with subappressed to ascending white hairs 0.6-0.8 mm. Leaves 1.5-3 cm; stipules 2.5-3 mm, free, sparsely to loosely hairy; petiole 0.5-1 cm, with rachis hairy like stem; leaflets in 3-5 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 4-9 × 0.5-1.5 mm, both surfaces loosely covered with subappressed to ascending hairs 0.6-0.8(-1) mm, apex acute. Racemes densely 4-6-flowered; peduncle 7-8 cm, slender, sparsely to loosely white hairy, toward raceme also with black hairs; bracts whitish, ca. 2 mm, with predominantly black hairs. Calyx ca. 3.5 mm, loosely covered with subappressed predominantly blackish hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; teeth 1-1.5 mm. Petal color unknown; standard trans­versely elliptic, ca. 7 × 9 mm, apex very widely and shallowly emarginate; wings ca. 6.5 mm; keel ca. 7.5 mm. Style hairy in lower part, below stigma with a long line of minute hairlets. Legumes (very unripe) subsessile, narrowly ellipsoid, at least 6 mm, densely covered with subappressed to slightly ascending white hairs 0.6-0.8 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Distribution

Astragalus sciadophorus world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:479718-1
WFO ID wfo-0000198282
COL ID J2DR
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Synonyms

Tragacantha sciadophora Astragalus sciadophorus