Astragalus kochakii
Astragalus kochakii
Koçak geveni
Erect, caulescent, perennial herb. 10-20 cm, with a woody caudex. Stems densely covered with spreading to adpressed white bifurcate hairs. Stipules ovatea-cuminate. 3-5 mm. Leaves 1.5-4 cm: petioles 0.5-1.5 cm; leaflets 3 pairs, narrowly. elliptic-oblong or linear-lanceoiate 5-15 x 1-3 mm; obtuse or subacute, densely adpressed pilose on both surfaces. Peduncles 1.5-5 cm. Inflorescence c. 2 cm in diam. ovate-globose, subsessile, 10-20-flowered. Bracts linear-lanceolute, membranous, 3-4 mm. Calyx tubulur-campanulate, 7-8 mm, predominantly with adpressed white, sometimes few black bifurcate hairs; teeth linear, 2-3 mm. Corolla purple; standard 15-18 mm. obtuse or slightly retuse at apex; wings 12-14 mm: keel 10-12 mm. Ovary bilocular. linear-lanceolate, 5-6 ovulate; stlye 5-7 mm. glabrous. Legume 6-10 mm, ovate-oblong, pilose, beak 2-3 mm, curved, with long persistent style. Fl. & Fr: 6-7. On gypsum steppe. 800-870 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. Close to A. xylobasis Freyn & Bornm. , but differs from it by its shorter stem and 3-paired leatlets .
