Astragalus demirizii

Koçhisar geveni

Plants procumbent to ascending, 20-50 cm tall, densely covered with mostly ± symmetrically medifixed white hairs. Caudex up tp 10 mm in diameter. Stems 10-45 cm long, sulcate, equally foliate, densely covered with appressed hairs ca. 1 mm long. Stipules membranous, 2-4 mm long, nearly free from petiole, behind the stem vaginate-connate up to two third, with two triangular tips, sparsely covered with asymmetrically medifixed hairs 0.5-0.8 mm long, glabrescent, ciliate at the margins. Leaves 6-10 cm long; petiole very short, 0.2- 0.5 cm long, like the rachis densely covered with appressed, symmetrically medifixed hairs ca. 0.5 mm long. Leaflets in 6-9 pairs, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 7-12 x 3-5.5 mm at the apex obtusish to acutish, on both sides covered with appressed hairs 0.5-1 mm long. Peduncles 3-7 cm long, sulcate, densely covered with appressed hairs ca. 0.5 mm long. Racemes densely 20-50-flowered, at fruiting time elongating up to 7 cm. Pedicels ca. 1 mm long. Flowers erect. Bract membranous, 1.5-2.5 mm long, narrowly triangular, sparsely hairy, at the margins cilate with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate hairs ca. 0.5 mm long. Calyx tubular to slightly inflated, 7.5-9.5 mm long, covered with appressed, symmetrically medifixed white hairs and with much fewer spreading, asymmetrically medifixed hairs 0.5-1 mm long; teeth ca. 1 mm long, triangular, in innerside covered with asymmetrically medifixed and basifixed hairs 0.5 mm long. Petals glabrous, pink, fading dark violet. Standard 13-19 mm long; blade 6-9 mm wide, obtusely rhombic, at the apex emarginate, gradually narrowed at the base. Wings slightly shorter than the standard, 13-18 mm long; blades narrowly oblong, at the apex obliquely emarginate, 6-9 x 1.5-2.5 mm; auricle ca. 1 mm long, claw 7-9 mm long. Keel 12-14 mm long; blades obliquely narrowly ovate, with nearly straight upper edge, at the apex acutish, 4.5-6 x 2-2.5 mm; auricle ca. 0.5 mm long, claw 7.5-9 mm long. Staminal-tube straightly cut. Ovary sessile, covered with somewhat flattened white hairs; style hairy at the base. Legumes with a stipe up to 1 mm long, narrowly elliptic, 7-10 mm long, ca. 3 mm high and 2 mm wide, carinate ventrally, rounded dorsally, with a strongly curved beak ca. 1 mm long, incompletely bilocular; valves straw-colored, densely covered with subbasifixed, straight to flexuouse hairs 2-3 mm long. Seeds ca. 3 in each locule, ca. 1 mm long, brown, rugulose.

Endemic