Astragalus wolungensis P.C.Li

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Astragalus

Characteristics

Plants up to 25 cm tall, with appressed white hairs 0.05-0.7 mm. Stems several, prostrate to ascending, sparsely covered with hairs up to 0.1 mm to glabrous. Leaves 2.5-5 cm, subses­sile; stipules 3-4 mm, free, sparsely ciliate; rachis hairy like stem; leaflets in 7 or 8 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 4-9 × 1.5-3 mm, both surfaces densely spotted with dark purplish minute dots, abaxially loosely and adaxially sparsely covered with hairs 0.5-0.7 mm, or adaxially glabrous, apex acute. Racemes loosely 3-or 4-flowered; peduncle 2-3.5 cm, sparsely hairy like stem; bracts ca. 1 mm, hairy. Calyx 3-4 mm, very sparsely covered with very short hairs; teeth 0.5-1 mm. Petals yellowish; stan­dard obovate, ca. 8.5 × 4.5 mm, apex emarginate; wings ca. 8.5 mm; keel ca. 8.5 mm. Legumes (immature) with a stipe ca. 5 mm, ca. 10 mm; valves thin, brown, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Distribution

Astragalus wolungensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:937678-1
WFO ID wfo-0001269662
COL ID 67VRK
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Synonyms

Astragalus wolungensis