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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.


1 Calyx 10-15 mm, with subbasifixed, spreading, white hairs 1-1.5 mm and with shorter black hairs.   278 A. angustissimus
+ Calyx shorter, with appressed hairs   (2)
       
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.   279 A. chaidamuensis
+ Plants without sterile shoots; leaves and leaflets all of equal size; petals pink, purple, or violet   (3)
       
3 (2) Calyx 8-11 mm, teeth 2-4 mm; legumes linear, ca. 2 mm in diam.; racemes rather dense, short, up to 4 cm   (4)
+ 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   (5)
       
4 (3) Stipules 1.5-2.5 mm; leaflets in 3 or 4(or 5) pairs; standard below middle slightly constricted; wing limbs obtuse.   280 A. hesiensis
+ Stipules 4-5 mm; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs; standard not constricted; wing limbs distinctly emarginate.   283 A. yumenensis
       
5 (3) 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.   282 A. scoparius
+ Wings ca. 19 mm, limbs obtuse; keel ca. 16 mm; legumes 14-20 mm, glabrous or with scattered hairs only.   281 A. kessleri


 

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