长果黄耆 chang guo huang qi

Plants 40-90 cm tall. Stem up to 7 mm thick, very densely covered with soft spreading hairs. Leaves 10-23 cm; stipules 6-12 mm, hairy; petiole 2-3 cm, like rachis rather densely spreading hairy; leaflets in 20-25 pairs, ovate to elliptic, 10-16 × 7-10 mm, abaxially densely subappressed hairy, adaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy, apex rounded to subacute. Racemes subsessile, cylindric, 9-13 cm; bracts 6-9 mm, hairy. Flowers subsessile. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 20-25 mm, spreading hairy; teeth 9-12 mm. Petals yellow, glabrous; standard ovate, 15-21 × ca. 8 mm, apex obtuse; wings 14-20 mm; keel 13-19 mm. Legumes ovoid, 6-7 mm, 3-4 mm high, densely hairy.

NW Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; SW Asia (Iran)].