布河黄耆 bu he huang qi

Plants 10-22 cm tall, acaulescent, covered with ± spreading hairs up to 3 mm. Leaves 10-20 cm; stipules 10-15 mm, sparsely to densely hairy, adnate to petiole for 2-4 mm; petiole 2-6 cm, like rachis loosely to densely hairy; leaflets in 18-30 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 5-12 × 2-4 mm, often folded, abaxially loosely to rather densely hairy, adaxially glabrous, apex rounded to slightly retuse. Racemes 2- or 3-flowered; peduncle 1-5 cm, loosely hairy; bracts 7-13 mm, ciliate. Calyx 10-14 mm, loosely to densely hairy especially in upper part, rarely in basal part glabrous; teeth 4-5 mm. Petals yellow; standard elliptic to obovate, 20-24 × 8-10(-12) mm, apex emarginate; wings 19-22 mm; keel 16-20 mm. Legumes with a stipe 2-5 mm, (10-)15-20 mm, 6-8 mm high and wide, with a straight beak 3-5 mm, incompletely 2-locular; valves thinly leathery, loosely covered with long spreading hairs, more rarely glabrous.

Steppic meadows in the forest-free zone. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Russia; SW Asia (Caucasus), Europe].