Astragalus trojanus

Çanakkale geveni

Sprawling shrub; stems 5-30 cm, not completely covered by stipule bases, villous. Leaf rachis spiny, 2-6 cm, straight or curved. Leaflets 4-9 mm, oblong to elliptic, mucronulate, sparsely white-simple-pilose or glabrous, 5-7-paired. Stipules c. 10 mm, triangular-lanceolate, tomentose. Flowers sessile, 5-7 per leaf axil. Inflorescence ±globose, more usually oblong, 2-3 cm diam., 10-50-flowered. Bracts 5-11 mm, oblong to ovate-lanceolate navicular, villous towards the apex. Bracteoles 6-10 mm, linear, densely pilose, resembling the calyx lobes. Calyx 9-14 mm, densely white-pilose; lobes divided to the base though apparently forming a tube 3-4 mm long. Corolla pink; standard 15-19 mm. Style hairy. Fl. 5-7. Steppe, macchie, s.I.-1040 m.

E. Medit. element.