Astragalus nitens
Astragalus nitens
Parlak geven
Erect, caulescent, suffrutescent perennial, 20-50 cm. Leaves 4-7 cm; leaflets 10-18 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic, bifurcate-sericeous, 3-5-paired; stipules c. 2 mm, triangular-Ianceolate, joined below. Peduncles 10.22 cm. Inflorescence c. 3 cm diam., a compact, 5-10-flowered raceme or spike with subsessile flowers. Bracts c. 2 mm, linear-lanceolate. Calyx 12-15 mm, tubular, sparsely short black adpressed bifurcate-hairy, interspersed with longer white spreading simple hairs; teeth c. 1 mm, linear; tube splitting on maturity. Corolla pale violet; standard 18-28 mm. Legume 12-20 x c. 5 mm, oblong, terete, curved, coarsely white spreading simple-hairy; beak c. 2 mm. Fl. 5-7. Under Pinus and Quercus, steppe, 620-1400 m.
Endemic; Ir.-Tur. element. Closely resembling A. melanocephalus in Sect. Cystodes, but differing in its non-inflated calyx.
