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7. Astragalus sect. Onycholobium  Pomel, Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Algérie.  11: 189.  1874.  
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Plants annual, mostly branched at base, with basifixed hairs. Stipules shortly adnate to petiole. Racemes sessile or pedunculate, ± densely capitate. Petals of unequal length. Legumes sessile, at base mostly distinctly widened to bigibbous, keeled ventrally, deeply grooved dorsally, groove often widened toward base, mostly fully 2-locular. 
Twenty-four species: N Africa, SW Asia to Pakistan and China, S Europe; four species in China. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        
                         
		
                          
                          
			
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  Stems, petiole, and rachis closely appressed hairy | 
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  Stems, petiole, and rachis at least in part with ascending to spreading hairs | 
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  Calyx 3-4 mm; bracts 1-1.5 mm; legumes 6-10 mm, with wrinkled walls, covered with short subappressed hairs and spreading hairs up to 1.5 mm. | 
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  11 A. filicaulis | 
 
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  Calyx 5.5-7 mm; bracts 2-3 mm; legumes 12-15 mm, covered with subappressed to ascending hairs up to 1.3 mm. | 
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  13 A. sesamoides | 
 
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  Calyx 2.5-3 mm; leaflets adaxially glabrous; legumes widest at base but not bigibbous. | 
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  12 A. persepolitanus | 
 
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  Calyx 3-5 mm; leaflets on both surfaces densely appressed hairy; legumes at base distinctly bigibbous. | 
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  14 A. tribuloides | 
 
 
 
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