Astragalus nezaketiae
Astragalus nezaketiae
Nazik geven
Perennial dwarf herb, scapose, with a woody base. Leaves 5-12 cm , linear-bolong; petiole 2.5-5 cm long. Leaflets 6-12 pairs, 5-13 x 4-7 mm, broadly orbicular to oblong-elliptic, rounded or subemarginate at apex, cuneate at base, sparsely adpressed bifurcate-sericeous below, glabrescent or glabrous above. Stipules whitish-hyaline, 8-12 mm long, ovate to lanceolate, subulate to acuminate at apex, adnate to petiole for 1-2 mm, covered with adpressed white hairs outside, later glabrescent. Peduncle 4-7,5 cm long, bearing black and white bifurcate hairs. Inflorescence a short raceme, ± lax, 4-9-flowered. Bracts thin membranous, 3-5 mm long, ovate to lanceolate, with adpressed sparse hairs. Bracteoles 2, minute scale-like, at the base of calyx. Flowers shortly pedicellate, pedicel ca 3mm long. Calyx 11-14 mm long, tubular, predominantly with adpressed black and sometimes few white hairs, gibbous at base; teeth subulate, 3-4 mm long. Petals mauve-pink. Standard 24-27 mm long, elliptic, ±obtuse at apex, tapering gradually at base. Wings ca. 20 mm long; blades oblong, obtuse at apex; auricle 1 mm long, claw 10 mm long. Keel ca. 17 mm long; blades 8-10 mm long, falcate-triangular, obtuse at apex; auricle ca 1 mm long; claw 8-9 mm long. Stamens 11-12 mm long. Ovary 8-10 mm long, ±linear, attenuate-substipitate, densely adpressed white sericeous; style ca. 10 mm long, glabrous. Legume curved, ±spreading, 40-55 x 6-10 mm, clearly laterally compressed, sutures very distinct, reticulate-veined, with sparse adpressed white-sericeous; mostly with brown blotches, bilocular with 15-20 seeds; beak 2-6 mm long, straight or slightly curved. Seeds subquadrate or comma-shaped, chestnut-brown, 2-3 x 2 mm, strobiculate. Fl. 6; Fr. 7
Endemic