Astragalus shadiensis L.R.Xu, Zhao Y.chang & Podlech

Plants 20-25 cm tall, only white hairy. Stems few, densely covered with medifixed, appressed hairs 0.5-0.8 mm. Leaves 4-5 cm; stipules ca. 3 mm, only those of lowest leaves shortly connate behind stem, others free from each other, all rather densely appressed hairy; petiole 1-1.5 cm, with rachis densely hairy like stem, at insertion of leaflets and leaflet petiole with ± spreading, strongly to extremely asymmetrically bifurcate hairs ca. 0.8 mm; leaflets in 4 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 7-12 × 1.5-3 mm, both surfaces loosely to rather densely covered with medi­fixed, appressed hairs 0.6-1 mm, apex acute to shortly acumi­nate. Racemes loosely 2-10-flowered; peduncle 3-5 cm, hairy like stem; bracts 2-3 mm, loosely hairy. Calyx ca. 10 mm, loosely to rather densely covered with subappressed, ± medi­fixed, white hairs 0.5-0.8 mm, at margins of teeth also with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate hairs; teeth unequal, 2-3 mm. Petals yellow; standard ca. 15 × 5 mm, apex emarginate; wings ca. 12 mm; keel ca. 12 mm. Legumes (unripe) ca. 25 mm, ca. 2 mm high, shortly acuminate; valves loosely covered with medi­fixed, appressed hairs 0.5-0.8 mm.