琴瓣黄耆 qin ban huang qi

Plants 2-5 cm tall, vegetative parts densely covered with ± medifixed, spreading, white hairs 0.4-0.5 mm. Stem, if present, very short. Leaves 3-4 cm, subsessile; stipules ca. 2.5 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 1 mm, connate behind stem for 1.5-2 mm, hairy; rachis hairy; leaflets in 10-13 pairs, 4-5 × 1.5-2 mm, both surfaces, though abaxially more densely, spreading hairy. Racemes 3- or 4-flowered; peduncle ca. 3 cm, hairy; bracts 4-5 mm, hairy. Calyx inflated tubular, 10-12 mm, covered with ± spreading, symmetrically bifurcate hairs 0.6-1 mm and with appressed, symmetrically or asymmetrically bi­furcate, white hairs 0.1-0.2 mm, with some gray hairs mixed in; teeth 2.5-3 mm. Petals yellow; standard obovate-pandurate, 20-22 × ca. 7 mm, in middle distinctly constricted, apex emar­ginate; wings 19-21 mm; keel ca. 17 mm. Ovary sessile, hairy. Legumes unknown.

● Steppes; 400-600 m. Xinjiang.