干草原黄耆 gan cao yuan huang qi

Plants 3-5 cm tall, acaulescent, densely caespitose, covered with ascending to spreading, bifurcate, white hairs. Leaves 2-5 cm; stipules 4-8 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 1 mm, rather densely covered with basifixed, ascending hairs 0.5-0.8 mm; petiole 1-2.5 cm, like rachis rather densely covered with sym­metrically to strongly asymmetrically, ascending to spreading, ± flexuous, tangled hairs 1-1.8 mm; leaflets in 4(or 5) pairs, elliptic to obovate, 3-7 × 1.5-4 mm, often folded, both surfaces rather densely covered with ± medifixed, ascending to partly ± spreading hairs 1.5-2.5 mm. Racemes subsessile, ca. 3-flow­ered; bracts 7-8 mm, hairy like stipules. Calyx ca. 8 mm, rather densely covered with symmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate or partly basifixed, ascending to spreading hairs up to 1.2 mm; teeth ca. 2 mm. Petals in life purplish, yellowish when dry; standard obovate, ca. 17 × 7 mm, distinctly constricted below middle, apex emarginate; wings ca. 17 mm; keel ca. 15 mm. Ovary sessile, densely white hairy. Legumes unknown.

● W Xinjiang.