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Astragalus cinereus WILLD. |
Astragalus cinereus WILLD. |
 Astragalus cinereus WILLD |
 Astragalus cinereus WILLD. |
 Astragalus cinereus WILLD |
 Astragalus cinereus WILLD |
Astragalus L. |
| A. cinereus Willd., Sp. PL 3:1315 (1803). Figure 2, p. 229. Ascending or erect, scapose perennial with a woody base. Leaves 7-12 cm; leaflets 8-12 mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, bifurcate-sericeous, 5-9-paired; stipules c. 4 mm, broadly triangular. Peduncles 4-10(-25) cm. Inflorescence a lax, ovate to cylindrical, 12-35-flowered raceme, elongating in fruit; flowers shortly pedicellate. Bracts c. 2 mm, lanceolate. Calyx 6-8 mm, tubular-campanulate, sparsely adpressed black and white bifurcate-hairy; teeth c. 2 mm, triangular to lanceolate. Corolla pale yellow (drying purplish); standard 16-24 mm. Legume 8-10 xc. 4 mm, ovoid, sparsely short white adpressed bifurcate-hairy, erecto-patent to erect; beak 4-6 mm, oblique. Fl. 5-6. Steppe, fields, etc., 1100-2100 m. Type: [Turkey] 'Armenia', Tournefort. N.E. & E. Anatolia. Armenia: Berdak, Bourgeau 79! A7 Gümüşane: Gümü-şane, 1100 m, Stainton 8304! A8 Gümüşane: Bayburt, Bourgeau. A9 Kars: Selim to Kars, 1900 m, D. 29549! B8 Erzincan: Tercan to Aşkale, 1850 m, D. 29318! B9 Van: Şuşanis Da., above Van, 2100 m, Hub.-Mor. 9095! B10 Kars: 34 km from Doğubayazit to Iğdir, on N. side of Pamuk Da., 1750 m, D. 43512! Endemic; Ir.-Tur. element. Probably allied to A. campylosema. |