Astragalus vallestris Kamelin

Plants 2-4 cm tall, acaulescent, covered with white hairs. Leaves 1-2.5 cm, with only 1 leaflet; stipules ca. 4 mm, densely covered with appressed to ascending, strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed hairs up to 1 mm; petiole 0.5-1 cm, densely covered with symmetrically or asymmetrically bifur­cate, appressed to subappressed hairs 0.3-0.8 mm; leaflets nar­rowly elliptic, 6-18 × 2-6 mm, both surfaces densely covered with appressed, mostly ± medifixed hairs 0.6-1.1 mm, apex acute. Racemes sessile. Calyx ca. 7 mm, loosely to rather densely covered with subbasifixed to basifixed, ± spreading hairs 1-1.5 mm; teeth 2-2.5 mm. Petals pink; standard oblong to obovate-pandurate, 12-15 × ca. 5 mm, slightly constricted near base, apex rounded; wings ca. 12 mm; keel 7-8 mm. Ovary with a stipe ca. 1 mm, ellipsoid, white hairy. Legumes unknown.