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59. Astragalus sect. Laguropsis Bunge, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7. 11(16): 137. 1868.

兔尾组 tu wei zu

Plants perennial, acaulescent or nearly so, with bifurcate hairs. Stipules shortly or high adnate to petiole, otherwise free or more rarely distinctly vaginate-connate. Inflorescences with a well-developed peduncle, densely mostly many flowered. Bracteoles absent. Calyx tubular at beginning of anthesis, at length bladderlike inflated. Legumes mostly included in calyx, sessile to subsessile, rarely dis­tinctly stipitate, 2-locular or 1-locular.

Forty-three species: Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, Russia (Siberia); C Asia, SW Asia (Caucasus, Iran, Turkey), E Europe; 17 species (eight en­demic) in China.


1 Petals purple or violet (in A. dilutus sometimes yellow with purple keel), sometimes drying yellowish brown, but mostly purple   (2)
+ Petals all yellow   (9)
       
2 (1) Calyx 7-8 mm; bracts 2-2.5 mm; standard ca. 15 mm; stipules high connate behind stem.   387 A. chamaephyton
+ Calyx and standard longer, bracts mostly longer; stipules free from each other   (3)
       
3 (2) Calyx teeth ca. 0.5 mm; plants only white hairy.   390 A. grum-grshimailoi
+ Calyx teeth longer; plants at least at calyx teeth but mostly elsewhere with black hairs, if only with white hairs (A. sabuletorum), then calyx teeth 3-4 mm   (4)
       
4 (3) Standard 20-24 × ca. 7 mm, rhombic-elliptic, without distinct claw; leaflets in 4-9 pairs.   399 A. tekesensis
+ Standard at most up to 20 mm, with a ± distinct claw; leaflets in mostly fewer pairs   (5)
       
5 (4) Most leaflets more than 10 mm and up to 15-25 mm; wings 2-4 mm shorter than standard   (6)
+ Leaflets up to 10 mm; wings as long as standard or ca. 1 mm shorter   (7)
       
6 (5) Leaflets in 3-5 pairs, in basal leaves often only in 1 or 2 pairs; bracts 5-10 mm; calyx covered with spreading hairs; legumes sessile.   392 A. laguroides
+ Leaflets in 5-9 pairs; bracts 3-5 mm; calyx covered with appressed hairs; legumes with a stipe 1-1.5 mm.   396 A. sabuletorum
       
7 (5) Leaflets in 2-4 pairs; bracts white and black hairy; calyx covered with spreading hairs.   394 A. obtusifoliolus
+ Leaflets in at least 4 pairs, but mostly in more; bracts white hairy; calyx appressed hairy   (8)
       
8 (7) Calyx at anthesis 9-10 mm, with teeth 1-1.5 mm; standard limb elliptic; petals pale purple or yellow with purple keel.   388 A. dilutus
+ Calyx at anthesis 13-14 mm, with teeth 2.5-3.5 mm; standard limb obovate-pandurate; petals purplish.   395 A. ochrias
       
9 (1) Stipules 4-7 mm, adnate to petiole for ca. 2 mm, sometimes connate in front of petiole higher up, always connate behind stem up to 3/4 of length.   397 A. sphaerocystis
+ Stipules never connate behind stem or around petiole   (10)
       
10 (9) Leaves 1-2 cm; leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs.   400 A. wenquanensis
+ Leaves longer; leaflets in more pairs   (11)
       
11 (10) Standard ca. 14 mm.   393 A. novissimus
+ Standard at least 17 mm but mostly longer   (12)
       
12 (11) Calyx covered with appressed hairs   (13)
+ Calyx covered with spreading hairs   (15)
       
13 (12) Stipules 4-10 mm, adnate to petiole for 2-4 mm; calyx teeth 3-7 mm; legumes sessile, 7-8 mm, covered with asymmetrically bifurcate, ascending to spreading hairs.   398 A. taiyuanensis
+ Stipules 3-5 mm, very shortly adnate to petiole; calyx teeth up to 3 mm; legumes stipitate, longer, covered with medifixed, appressed hairs   (14)
       
14 (13) Wing limbs deeply bilobed; ovary and legumes with a stipe 3-3.5 mm, grooved dorsally, incompletely 2-locular.   401 A. zaissanensis
+ Wing limbs slightly emarginate; ovary and legumes with a stipe 1-1.5 mm, narrowly rounded dorsally, 2-locular.   391 A. kurtschumensis
       
15 (12) Leaflets in 2-5 pairs; stipules 10-17 mm; bracts 6-9 mm.   386 A. baotouensis
+ Leaflets in at least 4 pairs but in most leaves in distinctly more; stipules up to 8 mm; bracts at most up to 5 mm   (16)
       
16 (15) Stipules 6-8 mm, high adnate to petiole, covered with strongly asymmetrically bifurcate hairs; leaflets 5-10 × 1.5-4 mm, very densely silvery hairy; peduncles longer than leaves.   385 A. arkalycensis
+ Stipules very shortly adnate to petiole, covered with medifixed hairs; leaflets mostly longer and distinctly wider, 6-25 × 4-13 mm, densely but not silvery hairy; peduncles shorter than leaves.   389 A. ellipsoideus


 

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