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42. Astragalus sect. Corethrum Bunge, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7. 11(16): 98. 1868.
帚状组 zhou zhuang zu
Plants perennial, acaulescent or subacaulescent, furnished with medifixed or partly asymmetrically bifurcate hairs. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules ± adnate to petiole, otherwise free. Racemes borne on a long peduncle, loosely flowered, rarely dense at beginning of anthesis and elongating with age. Bracteoles absent. Calyx campanulate to campanulate-tubular. Petals purple, rose, or violet; wing limbs often distinctly incised. Legumes narrowly ovoid to narrowly oblong, keeled ventrally, grooved dorsally, fully 2-locular or nearly so.
Twelve species: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan; six species (three endemic) in China.
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Calyx 10-15 mm, with subbasifixed, spreading, white hairs 1-1.5 mm and with shorter black hairs. |
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278 A. angustissimus |
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Calyx shorter, with appressed hairs |
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2 (1) |
Plants with sterile shoots; leaves of sterile shoots 1-2 cm, with 1 or 2 pairs of small leaflets 2-3 mm; leaves of flowering shoots 3-7 cm, leaflets in (2 or)3 or 4 pairs, linear, 10-15 × 1-1.5 mm; petals probably yellow. |
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279 A. chaidamuensis |
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Plants without sterile shoots; leaves and leaflets all of equal size; petals pink, purple, or violet |
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Calyx 8-11 mm, teeth 2-4 mm; legumes linear, ca. 2 mm in diam.; racemes rather dense, short, up to 4 cm |
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Calyx shorter, at most up to 8 mm, teeth 1-1.5 mm; legumes 2.5-3.5 mm high; racemes distinctly longer, remotely flowered |
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4 (3) |
Stipules 1.5-2.5 mm; leaflets in 3 or 4(or 5) pairs; standard below middle slightly constricted; wing limbs obtuse. |
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280 A. hesiensis |
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Stipules 4-5 mm; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs; standard not constricted; wing limbs distinctly emarginate. |
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283 A. yumenensis |
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Wings (12-)14-15 mm, limbs distinctly incised to obliquely bilobed; keel 10-11 mm; legumes 6-10 mm, rather densely white and black hairy. |
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282 A. scoparius |
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Wings ca. 19 mm, limbs obtuse; keel ca. 16 mm; legumes 14-20 mm, glabrous or with scattered hairs only. |
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281 A. kessleri |
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