Astragalus sinkiangensis Podlech & L.R.Xu

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Astragalus

Characteristics

Plants ca. 8 cm tall, acaulescent, caespitose. Leaves 5-8 cm; stipules 10-15 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 1 mm, loosely covered with basifixed, spreading, white hairs 1-2 mm; petiole 1.5-2 cm, like rachis rather densely covered with symmetrically or asymmetrically bifurcate, ± spreading, tangled hairs 0.5-1 mm and with some basifixed longer hairs up to 2 mm; leaflets in 7-9 pairs, widely obovate to suborbicular, 4-6 × 3.5-5.5 mm, abaxially rather densely and adaxially sparsely to loosely covered with symmetrically or asymmetrically, partly flexuous, ascending to spreading, white hairs 0.5-0.8 mm, with a few basifixed, straight, longer hairs mixed in. Racemes sessile, 1-or 2-flowered; bracts 5-7 mm, hairy like stipules. Calyx 10-12 mm, densely covered with extremely asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed, spreading hairs 1-2 mm; teeth ca. 4 mm. Petals white; standard oblong-pandurate, ca. 25 × 8 mm, in lower 1/3 slightly constricted, base widened, hastate-auriculate, apex emarginate; wings 22-23 mm, limbs slightly retuse; keel ca. 21 mm. Ovary sessile, ellipsoid, densely white hairy. Legumes unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Distribution

Astragalus sinkiangensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60447052-2
WFO ID wfo-0001280934
COL ID J2JB
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Synonyms

Astragalus sinkiangensis