索戈特黄耆 suo ge te huang qi

Plants herbaceous to subshrubby, 25-30 cm tall, covered with ± medifixed, appressed, only white hairs 0.8-1.2 mm. Stems branched, 4-10 cm, very densely hairy. Leaves 6-16 cm; stipules 1.5-2 mm, shortly adnate to petiole, densely hairy; petiole 2-12 cm, like rachis densely hairy; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs, 12-30 × 1-2 mm, both surfaces rather densely hairy. Ra­cemes (7-)12-18 cm, remotely 8-10-flowered; peduncle 8-15 cm, rather densely hairy; bracts 2-3 mm, hairy, at margins with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed hairs. Calyx 8-10 mm, densely hairy; teeth ca. 2 mm. Petals pale purplish; standard elliptic, 10-20 × ca. 7 mm, apex emarginate; wings 15-17 mm; keel 12-13 mm. Legumes sessile, erect, straight or slightly curved, 21-23 mm, ca. 2 mm high and wide, with a subulate beak 2-2.5 mm; valves with scattered short, appressed hairs.

Gravelly steppes. NW Xinjiang [Kazakhstan].