Astragalus vescus Podlech & L.R.Xu

Plants 2-3 cm tall, acaulescent, caespitose, only white hairy. Leaves 1.5-2 cm; stipules 4-5 mm, adnate to petiole for 1-1.5 mm, loosely to rather densely covered with symmetri­cally or asymmetrically bifurcate, appressed hairs up to 1 mm, at margins with basifixed hairs; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm, like rachis densely to rather densely covered with medifixed, appressed hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs, obovate, 2-5 × 0.5-2.2 mm, abaxially somewhat densely and adaxially loosely covered with appressed, medifixed hairs up to 1 mm. Racemes sessile, 1-or 2-flowered; bracts ca. 3 mm, hairy, margins with basifixed hairs. Calyx 8-9 mm, densely to rather densely cov­ered with ± medifixed, appressed hairs 0.5-0.6 mm; teeth 2-2.5 mm. Petals white, suffused with red; standard obovate, ca. 19 × 8 mm, apex rounded; wings ca. 18 mm; keel ca. 16 mm. Ovary sessile, white hairy. Legumes unknown.