Astragalus echinops
Astragalus echinops
Topuz geveni
Erect, caulescent, perennial, 30–60 cm. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 7–13 mm, pilose. Leaves 15–30 cm, petiole 8–32 mm. Leaflets in 8–15 pairs, elliptic, 10–40 × 8–15 mm, obtuse or acute at the apex, simple-sericeous on both surfaces. Peduncles 30–110 mm. Racemes globose or rarely oblong. Bracts linear, flat or navicular, 7–13 mm, ciliate on margin. Bracteole 7–12 mm, linear, ciliate. Calyx 10–18 mm, campanulate; tube slightly inflated in fruit, densely long-villous; teeth 2–4 mm, linear. Petals cream. Standard 15–22 × 6–8 mm, stenonychioid, glabrous. Wings 11–15 × 2–3 mm. Keel 15–18 × 3–4 mm. Filaments 13–16 mm, glabrous, whitish; anthers yellow, dorsifixed. Ovary 5–7 mm, ovoid, densely white-hairy; style 12–13 mm, hairy at the base; stigma capitate. Legumes 9–13 × 4–5 mm, obovate, included within the calyx, laterally compressed, densely long-villous, and bilocular; beak curved, 2–4 mm. Seeds 5–6 × 3–5 mm, reniform, brown and smooth. Fl. 7–8. Woods, fields, steppe, 600-1900 m.
N. Iraq, Lebanon, N.W. Iran.
