Astragalus bozakmanii

Er geveni

Plants ca. 15 cm tall, subaeaulescent, covered with spreading, white to reddish hairs up to 3 mm long. Caudex slender. Stems up to 3 cm long, sparsely hairy. Stipules whitish-membranous, 10-12 mm long, narrowly triangular, nearly free from the petiole, sparsely to loosely hairy. Leaves 15-20 cm long; petiole 4-6 cm long, like the rhachis striate-sulcate, rather densely covered with fine, spreading hairs 1-3 mm long. Leaflets in ca. 15 pairs , elliptic, 10-13 x 5-6 mm, at the apex minutely acuminate-mucronulate, on both sides loosely to rather densely covered with subappressed hairs up to 2 mm long. Peduncles 2-4 cm long, hairy like the rhachis. Racemes loosely 15-20-flowered. Bracts whitish, narrowly ovate to narrowly triangular, 5-9 mm long, loosely hairy. Pedicels 3-5 mm long, spreadingly hairy. Calyx 12-13 mm long, tubular, slightly obliquely gibbous at the base, slightly obliquely cut at the mouth, loosely to rather densely covered with fine spreading hairs up to 3 mm long; teeth 5-6 mm, unequal, the upper two from triangular base attenuate, the lower three narrowly triangular, all densely hairy on innerside. Petals glabrous, yellow, the standard slightly reddish-suffiised. Standard 18-20 mm long; blade ca. 9 mm wide, obovate, slightly emarginate at the apex, at the base gradually narrowed into the cuneate claw. Wings 17-19 mm long; blades narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, 9-10x3 mm; auricle ca. 1 mm long, claw 7-9 mm long. Keel ca. 15 mm long; blades obliquely triangular, with widely, nearly rectangular-curved lower edge and slightly curved upper edge, acutish at the apex, 6x4 mm; auricle very short, claw 9 mm long. Staminal tube oblique at the mouth. Ovary wit a stipe ca. 2 mm long, densely hairy; style hairy up to the middle, below the stigma with a dorsal line of short spreading hairlets. Legumes unknown.