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41. Astragalus sect. Xiphidium Bunge, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7. 11(16): 123. 1868.

疏花组 shu hua zu

Plants shrubby, subshrubby, or herbaceous, perennial, with well-developed stems, covered with bifurcate or more rarely to subbasifixed hairs. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules free or adnate to petiole, otherwise free from each other. Racemes mostly loose, borne on a well-developed peduncle. Bracteoles absent. Flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx tubular. Petals glabrous; wing limbs mostly rounded at apex to retuse or slightly emarginate. Legumes sessile, or more rarely stipitate, 2-locular; valves leathery.

About 165 species: Afghanistan, China, Kashmir, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia (Siberia); N Africa (Egypt), C and SW Asia, Europe; 13 species (two endemic) in China.


1 Plants subshrubby to shrubby, up to 120 cm   (2)
+ Plants herbaceous, if slightly subshrubby, then only up to 35 cm tall   (3)
       
2 (1) Bracts 2.5-4 mm, white and black hairy; calyx covered with subbasifixed to basifixed, subappressed to ascending, white hairs 0.6-1.8 mm and with ± medifixed, appressed, black hairs 0.3-0.6 mm; standard with tonguelike narrowed tip.   270 A. gontscharovii
+ Bracts 1-2 mm, black ciliate; calyx covered with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, flexuous, ascending, white hairs up to 1 mm and with subappressed black hairs 0.1-0.3 mm; standard without tonguelike narrowed tip.   267 A. arbuscula
       
3 (1) Leaflets in 2-4 pairs   (4)
+ Leaflets at least in 4, but mostly in more and up to 9, pairs   (8)
       
4 (3) Calyx 11-13 mm; standard slightly constricted below middle   (5)
+ Calyx 8-10 mm; standard not or distinctly constricted   (6)
       
5 (4) Leaflets narrowly elliptic, 4-14 × 1-3 mm; petals purple or dirty yellowish violet; legumes ca. 20 mm, covered with symmetrically to strongly asymmetrically bifurcate white hairs 1-1.5 mm and with fewer shorter black hairs.   266 A. anfractuosus
+ Leaflets filiform, 8-20 × 0.3-0.5 mm; petals yellow; legumes 30-35 mm, covered with medifixed predominantly black hairs 0.3-0.5 mm.   271 A. laetabilis
       
6 (4) Leaves 6-16 cm with a long petiole ± as long as rachis; calyx with white hairs only.   276 A. sogotensis
+ Leaves 1-5 cm, subsessile; calyx white and black hairy   (7)
       
7 (6) Stipules ca. 2 mm; leaflets linear, 4-15(-20) × 1-1.5 mm; bracts 1-1.5 mm; calyx covered with medifixed, at dorsal side predominantly appressed black hairs 0.3-0.5 mm and at ventral side with subappressed to ascending, longer, predominantly white hairs; standard obovate.   269 A. compressus
+ Stipules 3-5 mm; leaflets narrowly oblong, 12-20 × 2-4 mm; bracts 2.5-4 mm; calyx covered with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, appressed to ascending, white hairs 0.8-1 mm and with medifixed, appressed, black hairs 0.2-0.3 mm; standard rhombic-elliptic, distinctly constricted below middle.   274 A. polyceras
       
8 (3) Peduncles equaling or slightly longer than leaves   (9)
+ Peduncles 1.5-3 × as long as leaves   (11)
       
9 (8) Calyx densely covered with subappressed to spreading, strongly asymmetrically bifurcate, white hairs 0.3-1.2 mm and with often much shorter black hairs.   265 A. amabilis
+ Calyx covered with appressed, medifixed, predominantly black hairs   (10)
       
10 (9) Calyx 11-15 mm; petals pink, often suffused with yellow or green; standard 24-27 mm.   273 A. macrotropis
+ Calyx 9-12 mm; petals white or violet; standard 20-22 mm.   272 A. macrolobus
       
11 (8) Leaflets in 9-12 pairs; bracts 3-4 mm; calyx 10-12 mm; petals yellowish, standard ca. 25 mm; legumes 40-45 mm, black hairy.   275 A. pseudoamabilis
+ Leaflets in 5-9 pairs; bracts 1-2 mm; calyx up to 10 mm; petals purple to lilac, standard up to 22 mm; legumes 20-35 mm, white and black hairy   (12)
       
12 (11) Stems and leaves sparsely hairy; calyx 6-7 mm.   268 A. ceratoides
+ Stems and leaves densely to very densely hairy; calyx 8-10 mm.   277 A. stenoceras


 

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