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26. Astragalus sect. Pseudotapinodes Podlech & L. R. Xu, Sendtnera. 7: 199. 2001.

假短茎组 jia duan jing zu

Similar to Astragalus sect. Poliothrix but plants acaulescent to subacaulescent, at most up to 10 cm tall. Stipules adnate to or distinctly connate before petiole. Legumes incompletely 2-locular, so far as known (not 1-locular).

Seven species: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal; six species (four endemic) in China.


1 Standard 6-7 mm   (2)
+ Standard 9-12 mm   (3)
       
2 (1) Leaflets 2-4 × 1-2 mm, adaxially hairy toward margins; peduncle only with white hairs; legumes loosely predominantly white hairy.   192 A. orbicularifolius
+ Leaflets 4-8 × 2-3.5 mm, glabrous adaxially; peduncle toward raceme with black hairs; legumes densely black hairy.   191 A. longiscapus
       
3 (1) Stipules adnate to petiole for 1-2 mm and connate to each other before petiole further up; leaflets in 8-11 pairs, 4-9 mm; ovary and legumes black hairy.   193 A. rigidulus
+ Stipules not as above; leaflets in at most 8 pairs, up to 5 mm; ovary white hairy or glabrous   (4)
       
4 (3) Plants ca. 10 cm tall, with stems up to 4 cm; leaves 3-5 cm; peduncles glabrous; ovary glabrous.   190 A. dingjiensis
+ Plants 1.5-5 cm tall, acaulescent or nearly so; leaves 1-2 cm; peduncles hairy; ovary glabrous or hairy   (5)
       
5 (4) Stem, if present, glabrous; leaflets 3-5 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous or with a few hairs only; peduncle inconspicuous, up to 3 mm, densely black hairy; calyx 3-4 mm, covered with flexuous black hairs up to 0.3 mm; ovary glabrous.   189 A. dickorei
+ Stem, if present, loosely hairy; leaflets 1-3 × 0.5-1.5 mm, adaxially sparsely to loosely hairy, abaxially densely to rather densely hairy; peduncle 3-15 mm, white and black hairy; calyx covered with black hairs 0.1-0.3 mm and with white hairs 0.6-1 mm; ovary white hairy.   188 A. conaensis


 

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