萨格斯台黄耆 sa ge si tai huang qi

Plants ca. 15 cm tall, with hairs 0.3-0.6 mm. Stems many, rather densely appressed to subappressed white hairy, with some black hairs mixed in, especially at nodes. Leaves 3-6 cm, sub­sessile; stipules 4-6 mm, free, sparsely to loosely covered with subappressed predominantly black hairs; rachis hairy like stem; leaflets in 6-9 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 8-15 × 2-5 mm, abax­ially rather densely appressed hairy, adaxially glabrous, apex obtuse. Racemes 2-3 cm, densely many flowered; peduncle 2.5-5 cm, hairy like stem, toward raceme with increasingly black hairs; bracts 4-5 mm, with subappressed to ascending predominantly black hairs. Calyx 4-4.5 mm, loosely to rather densely covered with subappressed to ascending black hairs; teeth ca. 2 mm. Petals whitish when dry; standard elliptic, 8.5-9.5 × ca. 4 mm, rounded at apex; wings ca. 7 mm, limbs obtri­angular, distinctly dilated to unequally, widely emarginate tip; keel ca. 5 mm. Legumes globose, ca. 3 mm in diam., rounded ventrally, deeply grooved dorsally, rounded at apex, beakless, 2-locular; valves rather densely covered with subappressed to slightly ascending white and black hairs up to 0.8 mm. Seeds 2.

● Xinjiang (Junggar Pendi).