博乐黄耆 bo le huang qi

Plants 2-4 cm tall, acaulescent, densely caespitose, only white hairy. Leaves 0.8-1.5 cm; stipules 5-6 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 3 mm, loosely to rather densely covered with basifixed, subappressed hairs up to 1 mm; petiole 0.3-0.7 cm, like rachis very densely covered with medifixed, appressed hairs 0.4-0.6 mm; leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs, obovate, 3-6 × 1.2-3 mm, mostly boot-shaped or folded, especially toward apex, abaxially somewhat densely and adaxially loosely to rather densely covered with appressed, medifixed hairs 0.3-0.5 mm. Racemes sessile, 1- or 2-flowered; bracts ca. 3 mm, with basi­fixed hairs 0.5-1 mm. Calyx 8-9 mm, densely to rather densely covered with subbasifixed to basifixed, spreading, tangled hairs 0.5-1 mm; teeth 2-2.5 mm. Petals purplish in life, whitish yel­lowish when dry; standard oblong, 16-17 × 4.5-5.5 mm, below middle constricted, base angular-auriculate, somewhat abruptly contracted into short claw, apex emarginate; wings 14-15 mm; keel 12-13 mm. Ovary sessile, white hairy. Legumes unknown.

● W Xinjiang.