Astragalus decurrens

Kulaklı geven

Erect, caulescent, perennial, 20–50 cm. Stipules broadly ovate-acuminate, decurrent, 15–47 mm, long-ciliate on margin. Leaves 5–26 cm, petiole 30–35 mm. Leaflets in 20–37 pairs, narrowly ovate or oblong-cylindrical, 8–26 × 2–10 mm, obtuse at the apex, glabrous above, densely long-pilose below. Peduncles 0–30 mm. Pedicel 1–2 mm. Racemes 6–18 × 4–5 mm, ovoid-cylindrical. Bracts linear, 4–22 mm, ciliate on margin. Bracteole absent. Calyx 17–25 mm, tubular-campanulate, tube slightly inflated in fruit, densely long-pilose; teeth 11–19 mm, linear. Petals yellow, drying purple. Standard 23–35 × 6–8 mm, stenonychioid, glabrous. Wings 18–27 × 2–4 mm. Keel 19–30 × 2–4 mm. Filaments 18–26 mm, glabrous, whitish; anthers yellow, dorsifixed. Ovary 4–10 mm, ovoid, densely white-hairy; style 15–22 mm, rarely hairy at the base; stigma capitate. Legumes 9–16 × 4–6 mm, ovoid, included within the calyx, glabrous with the sparsely hairy on ventral suture, bilocular; beak curved, 2–5 mm. Seeds 4–5 × 2–3 mm, reniform, brown and smooth. Fl.: 6–7.Screen of Quercus sp., steppe, foots of mountains, rocky places, calcareous, vineyards, fields, riversides, 680–2000 m.

Endemic to Turkey. Irano-Turanian element.