木斯克黄耆 mu si ke huang qi

Plants 3-10 cm tall, acaulescent to nearly so, covered with only white hairs. Leaves 2-5 cm; stipules 5-8 mm, densely covered with subappressed, subbasifixed to basifixed hairs, at margins ciliate; petiole 1-3 cm, like rachis covered with ± medifixed, appressed to subappressed hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; leaf­lets mostly 1 or 3, obovate, 6-15 × 3-6 mm, both surfaces rather densely hairy like petiole. Racemes sessile, 2- or 3-flow­ered; bracts ca. 8 mm, densely covered with subbasifixed to basifixed, subappressed hairs up to 0.8 mm. Calyx 10-11 mm, densely villous with ascending to ± spreading, tangled, subbasi­fixed to basifixed hairs up to 2 mm; teeth 2-3 mm. Petals in dry state yellow; standard obovate, 22-23 × ca. 7 mm, apex slightly emarginate; wings 19-20 mm; keel ca. 16 mm. Legumes 4-5 mm, 3-4.5 mm high, slightly compressed laterally, abruptly contracted into a beak ca. 1 mm, incompletely 2-locular to nearly 1-locular; valves densely covered with subappressed hairs.

W Xinjiang (Pamir Shan) [Tajikistan].