黄毛黄耆 huang mao huang qi

Plants subshrubby, 20-50(-90) cm tall, vegetative parts covered with medifixed, appressed, mostly white hairs 0.8-1 mm. Stems of current year 6-13 cm, often branched at base, densely hairy. Leaves 3-7 cm; stipules 5-8 mm, adnate to peti­ole for ca. 2 mm, densely hairy, sometimes soon glabrescent; petiole 0.7-1.2 cm, like rachis loosely to rather densely hairy; leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs, 10-35 × 4-10(-12) mm, abaxially sparsely to loosely covered with appressed hairs 0.8-1.5 mm, adaxially sparsely hairy or nearly glabrous. Racemes subspheri­cal, 3-5 cm in diam., 4-8-flowered; peduncle 3-5 cm, sparsely white hairy to partly subglabrous; bracts 4-7 mm, white and black hairy. Calyx at anthesis ca. 12 mm, tubular, rather densely covered with basifixed to subbasifixed, spreading, white hairs 1-1.5 mm and with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, shorter, mostly subappressed to ascending, black hairs; teeth subulate, 2.5-3 mm; calyx at fruiting time ovoid, 15-18 mm. Petals yel­low; standard obovate, 20-26 × 8-10 mm, apex widely retuse; wings 18-23 mm; keel 18-22 mm. Legumes 12-14 mm, ca. 3.5 mm high, with a beak 1-1.5 mm, 2-locular; valves villous with spreading white and golden hairs, at apex and sometimes also on ventral side with shorter black hairs mixed in.

Xinjiang [Kazakhstan].