Astragalus visibilis Podlech & L.R.Xu

Plants 4-7 cm tall, acaulescent, with ± medifixed, ap­pressed, white hairs 0.8-1 mm. Leaves 2-5 cm; stipules 3-4 mm, adnate to petiole for 1-2 mm, densely hairy, at margins also with basifixed hairs; petiole 1-2.5 cm, very densely hairy; leaflets in basal leaves solitary, in other leaves 3, close together, elliptic to obovate or partly narrowly obovate, 10-18 × 3-8 mm, both surfaces very densely hairy. Racemes densely 8-10-flowered; peduncle 2-5 cm, very densely hairy; bracts ovate, 1.5-2 mm, loosely hairy, margins with basifixed hairs. Calyx 5-7 mm, densely white hairy; teeth subulate, 2-3 mm. Petals pink; standard ca. 14 × 8 mm, slightly constricted in lower 1/3, with­out distinct claw, apex slightly emarginate; wings ca. 12 mm; keel ca. 10 mm. Ovary sessile, densely white hairy. Legumes unknown.