Astragalus schizopterus
Astragalus schizopterus
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Mat-forming, scapose, perennial herb with a branched, woody caudex. Leaves 8-20 cm; leaflets 7-10 mm; elliptic to orbicular, sparsely short adpressed bifurcate- pilose below, glabrous above, glaucous, 7-15-paired; stipules c.6 mm, lanceolate. Peduncles 7-15 cm. Inflorescence 3-6 x 3-5 cm, a lax globose to oblong 10-15-flowered raceme; flowers shortly pedicellate. Bracts c.8 mm, linear-lanceolate. Calyx 15-18 mm, tubular, sparsely adpressed black and white bifurcate-hairy, at least when young; teeth c. 5 mm, linear. Corolla creamy white, flushed with purple, standard 25-33 mm, sometimes attenuate above. Legume 30-45 x 3-4 mm, cylindrical, curved, keeled on the ventral side only, sparsely white adpressed bifurcate-pilose, often with dark blotches; beak 5-8 mm, straight. Fl. 4-5. Under Pinus and Quercus, disturbed ground, etc., 100-1150 m.
Endemic; E. Medit. element. Allied to A. glaucophyllus. According to Boissier, A. pinardi has attenuate standards and A. schizopterus does not. There is, however, a complete gradation from one form to the other.
