Astragalus tyttocarpus Gontsch.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Astragalus

Characteristics

Plants subshrubby, 25-45 cm tall. Stems branched, parts of current year (3-)5-15(-20) cm, densely appressed white hairy, with scattered or toward nodes more numerous black hairs mixed in. Leaves 4-7 cm, subsessile; stipules 4-6 mm, adnate to petiole, lower ones connate at base, covered with appressed black and mostly with fewer white hairs; rachis appressed hairy; leaflets in 5-8 pairs, (10-)12-35 × 2-4 mm, abaxially sparsely covered with appressed hairs, adaxially covered with scattered hairs. Racemes (4-)6-10 cm, densely few to many flowered; peduncle up to 12 cm, appressed white hairy, toward raceme with black hairs mixed in; bracts (2-)4-5 mm, black hairy. Calyx in fruit narrowly ovoid, 8-11 mm, sparsely covered with ascending white hairs and subappressed, short, black hairs; teeth 2-2.5 mm. Petals dirty yellow; standard elliptic-pandurate, 17-20 mm, slightly constricted below middle, apex scarcely emarginate; wings 15-16 mm. Legumes ca. 5 mm, ca. 2.5 mm high, with a beak 1-1.5 mm, 2-locular; valves covered with sub­appressed white and black hairs.
Life form perennial
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.46
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Distribution

Astragalus tyttocarpus world distribution map, present in China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:480345-1
WFO ID wfo-0000198636
COL ID 5W7RK
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Synonyms

Astragalus woldemari Astragalus tyttocarpus Astragalus woldemari var. woldemari Astragalus woldemari var. atrotrichocladus