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51. Astragalus sect. Trachycercis Bunge, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7. 11(16): 114. 1868.

糙叶组 cao ye zu

Astragalus sect. Borodiniani B. Fedtschenko; A. sect. Deserti S. B. Ho.

Plants acaulescent or nearly so, mostly caespitose, with bifurcate to basifixed, mostly only white hairs. Stipules shortly to high adnate to petiole, otherwise free. Racemes subsessile or more rarely with a short peduncle, 1-8(-10)-flowered. Wing limbs rounded to emarginate. Legumes sessile, short, included in calyx or exceeding and rupturing calyx, mostly 2-locular.

Seventy-seven species: Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, Russia; C Asia, SW Asia (Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Turkey), Europe; 43 species (29 endemic) in China.


1 At least some leaves with only 1 leaflet   (2)
+ All leaves (ignore terminal ones) with at least 1 pair of leaflets   (5)
       
2 (1) Calyx 5-7 mm; petals pink; standard 12-15 mm   (3)
+ Calyx 10-12 mm; petals yellow; standard 21-23 mm   (4)
       
3 (2) Basal leaves with 1 terminal leaflet, other leaves with 1 additional pair of leaflets; plants with ± medifixed, appressed hairs; racemes with a peduncle 2-5 cm.   361 A. visibilis
+ All leaves with only 1 terminal leaflet; plants at stipules and calyx with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed, ascending to spreading hairs.   359 A. vallestris
       
4 (2) Leaves partly with only 1 terminal leaflet, partly with an additional pair of leaflets, leaflets obovate, 6-15 × 3-6 mm; bracts ca. 8 mm; legumes subglobose, 4-5 mm.   341 A. muschketowii
+ Leaves always with only 1 terminal leaflet, widely elliptic, 8-16 × 8-12 mm; bracts 3-4 mm; legumes narrowly ellipsoid, 15-18 mm, ca. 6 mm high.   340 A. monophyllus
       
5 (1) Leaflets in 1-3(or 4) pairs   (6)
+ Leaflets in more pairs   (19)
       
6 (5) Calyx 6-9 mm; bracts up to 7 mm   (7)
+ Calyx at least (8-)9 mm, but mostly and at least partly longer; bracts (7-)8-12 mm   (13)
       
7 (6) Standard 12-13 mm.   322 A. brevivexillatus
+ Standard ca. 16 mm or longer   (8)
       
8 (7) Stipules 2-3 mm; leaflets only in 1 pair; calyx black hairy; petals pink; standard ca. 21 mm, keel ca. 15 mm.   328 A. gregorii
+ Stipules longer; leaflets at least partly in 2 or 3 pairs; calyx white hairy; petals whitish, yellow, or purplish   (9)
       
9 (8) Stipules 2.5-4 mm; leaflets in 3 pairs; bracts 1-1.5 mm; standard ca. 16 mm, keel ca. 11 mm; calyx with medifixed, appressed hairs.   358 A. trijugus
+ Stipules longer; leaflets in 1-3 pairs; bracts distinctly longer; standard 19-20 mm, if standard only ca. 16 mm (A. porphyreus), then calyx with basifixed, spreading hairs   (10)
       
10 (9) Racemes with a peduncle 2-3 cm, 5-7-flowered; bracts ciliate, otherwise glabrous.   353 A. secretus
+ Racemes sessile, 1-3-flowered; bracts hairy   (11)
       
11 (10) Calyx with ± medifixed, appressed hairs; keel ca. 16 mm.   360 A. vescus
+ Calyx with basifixed, ± spreading hairs; keel 12-13 mm or ca. 18 mm   (12)
       
12 (11) Leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs, adaxially sparsely and abaxially rather densely covered with hairs ca. 1 mm; bracts ca. 7 mm; standard ca. 22 mm, keel ca. 18 mm.   319 A. acceptus
+ Leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs, adaxially loosely to rather densely and abaxially more densely covered with hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; bracts ca. 3 mm; standard 16-17 mm, keel 12-13 mm.   347 A. porphyreus
       
13 (6) Standard 13-15 mm.   348 A. pseudoborodinii
+ Standard (16-)20-24 mm   (14)
       
14 (13) Keel ca. 1/2 as long as standard   (15)
+ Keel distinctly more than 1/2 as long as standard   (16)
       
15 (14) Stipules 5-7 mm, ciliate, otherwise glabrous; calyx tube glabrous at least in lower 1/2.   326 A. glabritubus
+ Stipules 7-12 mm, densely hairy; calyx hairy all over.   345 A. parvicarinatus
       
16 (14) Petiole and rachis at least partly covered with spreading hairs   (17)
+ Petiole and rachis covered with appressed hairs   (18)
       
17 (16) Petiole and rachis covered with medifixed hairs 0.4-0.6 mm; bracts ca. 3 mm.   333 A. jiuquanensis
+ Petiole and rachis covered with medifixed hairs ca. 1 mm and with basifixed hairs up to 2 mm; bracts 8-10 mm.   346 A. perbrevis
       
18 (16) Some leaves with only 1 leaflet, others with an additional pair of leaflets; bracts ca. 8 mm, with hairs up to 0.8 mm; standard 22-23 mm.   341 A. muschketowii
+ Leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of leaflets; bracts 10-12 mm, with hairs up to 1.5 mm; standard ca. 20 mm.   320 A. borodinii
       
19 (5) Rachis with appressed to ascending hairs   (20)
+ Rachis with at least partly spreading hairs   (31)
       
20 (19) Plants in parts furnished with black hairs.   356 A. testiculatus
+ Plants only with white hairs   (21)
       
21 (20) Leaflets adaxially glabrous   (22)
+ Leaflets on both surfaces sparsely to densely hairy   (23)
       
22 (21) Stipules 4-5 mm; leaflets 2-6 × 0.8-2.5 mm; bracts ca. 5 mm; calyx 6-7 mm, with teeth 1.5-2 mm, covered with subbasifixed to basifixed hairs; standard 15-18 mm.   343 A. occultus
+ Stipules 5-7(-10) mm; leaflets 5-13(-19) × 1-3(-5) mm; bracts 6-9 mm; calyx ca. 9 mm, with teeth 4-6 mm, covered with asymmetrically bifurcate hairs; standard 21-26 mm.   324 A. galactites
       
23 (21) Standard 15-16 mm   (24)
+ Standard distinctly longer   (25)
       
24 (23) Leaflets in 6-9 pairs; bracts 3-4 mm; calyx 8-9 mm, with teeth ca. 2 mm.   330 A. hebecarpus
+ Leaflets in 3-6 pairs; bracts 7-8 mm; calyx 10-12 mm, with teeth 4-6 mm.   349 A. pseudohypogaeus
       
25 (23) Calyx 7-9 mm   (26)
+ Calyx 10-15 mm   (28)
       
26 (25) Standard 20-30 × 6-7 mm, narrowly oblong-pandurate, slightly to distinctly constricted below middle.   321 A. brevifolius
+ Standard 18-21 × 8-9 mm, ovate to obovate, not constricted   (27)
       
27 (26) Racemes sessile, 1-3-flowered; calyx covered with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed, tangled, flexuous, ± spreading hairs.   336 A. levidensis
+ Raceme with a peduncle 0.3-1.4(-4) cm, 3-5-flowered; calyx covered with ± medifixed, appressed hairs.   351 A. scaberrimus
       
28 (25) Plants caulescent with stem up to 15 cm; peduncle distinct, 0.5-3 cm; calyx after anthesis slightly inflated.   327 A. gracilidentatus
+ Plants acaulescent; racemes sessile; calyx always tubular   (29)
       
29 (28) Hairs of rachis and leaflets 1.8-3 mm; calyx with subappressed to slightly ascending hairs up to 1.5 mm, teeth 4-6 mm; standard 16-19 mm, constricted below middle; legumes with a beak 5-8 mm.   352 A. scabrisetus
+ Hairs of rachis and leaflets up to 1 mm; calyx with other kind of hairs, teeth shorter, at most up to 4 mm; standard mostly longer, not constricted below middle; legumes minutely acuminate (unknown in A. ningxiaensis)   (30)
       
30 (29) Stipules 4-5 mm, with spreading, partly basifixed hairs; bracts 10-11 mm, with spreading hairs; calyx with spreading, partly basifixed hairs up to 1.2 mm; standard 23-27 mm.   342 A. ningxiaensis
+ Stipules 4-12 mm, with ± appressed, asymmetrically bifurcate hairs; bracts 3-5 mm, with appressed to ascending hairs; calyx with ascending, asymmetrically bifurcate hairs 1.5-2.5 mm, teeth 2-3 mm; standard 18-22 mm.   334 A. junatovii
       
31 (19) Standard and wings hairy.   323 A. filidens
+ All petals glabrous   (32)
       
32 (31) Racemes with a distinct peduncle 1-3 cm, 6-10-flowered   (33)
+ Racemes sessile or subsessile   (34)
       
33 (32) Stipules 10-15 mm, adnate to petiole for 3-5 mm; calyx 10-12 mm; standard obovate, base gradually narrowed.   325 A. geerwusuensis
+ Stipules 5-6 mm, nearly free from petiole; calyx 15-16 mm; standard obovate-pandurate, below middle constricted, base angularly passing into claw.   337 A. lustricola
       
34 (32) Leaflets in (9 or)10-17 pairs   (35)
+ Leaflets in 4-11 pairs   (38)
       
35 (34) Stipules 3-7 mm; leaflets 3-6 × 1.5-3 mm; standard narrowly ovate; wing limbs slightly emarginate.   335 A. lang-ranii
+ Stipules 6-12 mm; leaflets larger; standard narrowly obovate, often slightly constricted in middle; wing limbs obtuse   (36)
       
36 (35) Leaflets on both surfaces covered with spreading hairs; bracts ca. 12 mm; petals yellow.   344 A. ordosicus
+ Leaflets covered at least partly with subappressed to ascending hairs; bracts up to 10 mm; petals white or purple in life (often drying to yellowish brown)   (37)
       
37 (36) Leaflets adaxially with subappressed hairs; bracts 7-10 mm; calyx teeth 5-7 mm; petals purple in life; standard 18-21 mm, obovate, widely cuneate at base; legumes 8-9 mm, ca. 3 mm high, with a beak 3-5 mm.   329 A. grubovii
+ Leaflets on both surfaces with ascending hairs; bracts ca. 5 mm; calyx teeth 2.5-5 mm; petals whitish; standard 22-28 mm, slightly constricted below middle, with a short claw; legumes 10-14 mm, ca. 5 mm high, shortly acuminate.   331 A. hsinbaticus
       
38 (34) Leaflets in 4(or 5) pairs; calyx ca. 8 mm; standard ca. 17 mm.   355 A. tesquorum
+ Leaflets in mostly distinctly more pairs; calyx and standard distinctly longer   (39)
       
39 (38) Leaflets covered with symmetrically to slightly asymmetrically bifurcate, appressed to slightly ascending hairs; bracts ca. 2 mm.   338 A. lychnobius
+ Leaflets covered with ascending to spreading hairs; bracts distinctly longer   (40)
       
40 (39) Calyx 15-18 mm; standard 27-32 mm.   332 A. hypogaeus
+ Calyx at most up to 13 mm; standard up to 25 mm   (41)
       
41 (40) Rachis partly appressed to subappressed hairy, with few to many spreading hairs mixed in; calyx covered with ascending to spreading, flexuous hairs up to 1 mm and with spreading, straight hairs up to 2 mm   (42)
+ Rachis only with spreading hairs; calyx with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate to basifixed, ascending to spreading hairs 1-2 mm   (43)
       
42 (41) Plants covered only with white hairs; stipules 10-15 mm; leaflets elliptic to widely elliptic, 3-4 × 2-2.5 mm, rounded; flowers subsessile; standard elliptic.   357 A. transecticola
+ Bracts, pedicels, and calyx with black hairs mixed in; stipules 6-8 mm; leaflets narrowly elliptic, 5-10 × 1.5-3 mm, acute; flowers with pedicel 2-3 mm; standard obovate, below middle slightly constricted.   339 A. macriculus
       
43 (41) Stipules 4-8 mm, sparsely to loosely covered with ± medifixed, subappressed to ascending hairs 0.7-1 mm, at margins also with ± basifixed hairs ca. 1.5 mm; leaflets elliptic to ovate, 3-5 × 1.5-3.5 mm; bracts 3-5 mm, very sparsely to sparsely hairy.   350 A. pseudoscaberrimus
+ Stipules 10-15 mm, loosely covered with basifixed, spreading hairs 1-2 mm; leaflets widely obovate to orbicular, 4-6 × 3.5-5.5 mm; bracts 5-7 mm, more densely hairy.   354 A. sinkiangensis


 

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