类中天山黄耆 lei zhong tian shan huang qi

Plants ca. 5 cm tall, acaulescent or nearly so, vegetative parts covered with appressed, ± medifixed, only white hairs. Stems, if present, up to 1 cm, very densely covered with hairs ca. 0.5 mm. Leaves 1.5-3 cm; stipules 1-2 mm, nearly free from petiole, behind stem shortly connate or to middle, loosely to rather densely hairy, at margins also with basifixed hairs; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm, with rachis hairy like stem; leaflets in 2-5 pairs, 2-6 × 1-1.5 mm, both surfaces very densely covered with hairs ca. 1 mm. Racemes short, rather densely 6-8-flowered; peduncle 2-3 cm, densely hairy like leaflets; bracts ca. 1 mm, white and black hairy. Calyx 7-8 mm, rather densely cov­ered with ± medifixed, subappressed, flexuous, black hairs 0.5-1 mm, with some longer, ascending, white and black hairs mixed in; teeth ca. 1 mm. Petals violet; standard elliptic, ca. 17 × 6 mm, apex emarginate; wings ca. 14 mm; keel ca. 13 mm. Legumes (immature) sessile, linear, pendulous, distinctly fal­cate, ca. 15 mm, apex acuminate; valves densely covered with symmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, appressed, white hairs 0.5-1 mm.

● Xinjiang.