Astragalus halicacabus

Sepet geveni

Scapose, often prostrate perennial with woody caudex. Leaves 10-35 cm; leaflets narrowly elliptic, acute, mucronulate, ± glabrous or with short sparse simple adpressed hairs; stipules 8-10 mm, lanceolate to linear, glabrous or white-ciliate. Peduncles 10-30 cm, glabrous or sparsely adpressed-hairy. Flowers in lax 8-25-flowered racemes. Bracts 5-8 mm, ovate to lanceolate, sparsely black-and white-hairy. Bracteoles 1-2 mm, lanceolate. Calyx 12-20 mm, tubular at first, becoming globose-inflated, reticulate-veined, glabrous or with sparse adpressed black and white simple hairs; teeth 0,5-1 mm, very broadly triangular, densely hairy. Corolla pink or lilac; standard 25-30 mm. Ovary glabrous or hairy. Legume unknown. Fl. 5-7. Steppe, rocky slopes, 900-1900 m.

Endemic; Ir.-Tur. element.