假黄耆 jia huang qi

Astragalus mendax Freyn; A. pamiro-alaicus Lipsky.

Plants 6-12 cm tall, acaulescent, furnished with mostly spreading hairs 0.3-1.5(-2) mm. Leaves 4-12 cm; stipules 5-12 mm, adnate to petiole for 3-5 mm, ciliate; petiole 0.5-2 cm, like rachis rather densely hairy; leaflets in 10-18 pairs, nar­rowly elliptic, 4-8 × 2-3 mm, abaxially rather densely or some­times sparsely covered with ascending hairs, adaxially glabrous, apex rounded or slightly retuse. Racemes subsessile, 2-flow­ered; bracts 4-6 mm, hairy. Calyx 12-14 mm, sparsely hairy; teeth 3-4 mm, ciliate. Petals yellow, fading red; standard obo­vate, 22-25 × 9-12 mm, apex emarginate; wings 20-22 mm; keel 16-18 mm. Legumes with a stipe 1-2 mm, 10-15 mm, 6-8 mm high and wide, with a beak 3-4 mm, incompletely 2-loc­ular; valves hairy.

From the Juniperus zone up to the alpine zone; 2000-4800 m. Xinjiang [Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan].