Astragalus transecticola Podlech & L.R.Xu

Plants 3-5 cm tall, acaulescent, caespitose, densely covered with ascending to spreading, bifurcate, only white hairs. Leaves 2-4.5 cm; stipules 10-15 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 3 mm, with spreading, basifixed hairs 1-2 mm; petiole 0.6-1.5 cm, like rachis densely covered with symmetrically or asymmetri­cally bifurcate or basifixed, subappressed to spreading, tangled hairs 0.8-1.5 mm; leaflets in 6 or 7 pairs, elliptic to widely elliptic, 3-4 × 2-2.5 mm, both surfaces densely covered with asymmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, ascending to partly spreading, tangled hairs 0.8-1 mm or adaxially loosely covered with subappressed hairs. Racemes subsessile, ca. 2-flowered; bracts 10-12 mm, with basifixed hairs ca. 1 mm. Calyx 12-13 mm, densely covered with symmetrically or asymmetrically bifurcate, flexuous, tangled hairs 0.5-1 mm and with basifixed, ± spreading, straight hairs up to 2 mm; teeth 3-4 mm. Petal color probably whitish or yellow; standard elliptic, ca. 21 × 8 mm, apex emarginate; wings 19-20 mm, limbs dis­tinctly obliquely emarginate; keel ca. 17 mm. Ovary sessile, densely white hairy. Legumes unknown.