Astragalus aleppicus
Astragalus aleppicus
Halep geveni
Erect caulescent perennial with shortly simp1e-white-pilose stems. Leaves 10-15 cm; leaflets 5-10 mm, orbicular, obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, adpressed- pilose to simple-sericeous below, 15-23-paired; stipu1es 7-12 mm, triangular-subulate. Flowers in 3-5-flowered racemes. Bracts 3-4 mm, linear. Bracteoles c. 1 mm. Calyx 10-13 mm, tubular, simple-white-pilose; teeth 2-4 mm. Corolla pale yellow; standard 25-30 mm. Legumes 25-30 x 15 mm, ovoid, compressed, prominently rugose, shortly simple-white-pilose; beak 10-15 mm. Fl. 4-5. Fields, steppe, 380 m.
Syrian Desert, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.
