类喜黄耆 lei xi huang qi

Plants ca. 30 cm tall, covered with appressed, medifixed hairs. Stems 10-20 cm, loosely to rather densely covered with white hairs 0.3-0.5 mm and some black hairs mixed in. Leaves 8-10 cm; stipules 3-4 mm, white and black hairy; petiole 1.5-3 cm, with rachis hairy like stem; leaflets in 9-12 pairs, 10-13 × 3-5 mm, abaxially sparsely to loosely and adaxially very sparsely hairy. Racemes densely 10-15-flowered; peduncle 13-18 cm, sparsely to loosely hairy like stem; bracts 3-4 mm, black hairy. Calyx 10-12 mm, loosely black hairy; teeth ca. 2 mm. Petals yellowish; standard narrowly elliptic, ca. 25 × 7 mm, apex emarginate; wings 18-21 mm; keel ca. 16 mm. Leg­umes (unripe) sessile, erect to spreading, narrowly linear, 40-45 mm, 1.5-2 mm high, with a subulate beak 1.5-2 mm, densely covered with appressed, symmetrically or asymmetrically bifur­cate, black hairs up to 0.6 mm.

● 1200-1900 m. NW Xinjiang.