Astragalus fabaceus

Bakla geveni

Scapose perennial. Leaves 10-30 cm; leaflets 18-20 mm, broadly ovate to orbicular, sparsely white, simple-pilose beneath, glabrous above, retuse, 5-10-paired; stipules c. 20 mm, lanceolate.· Peduncles 3-8 cm. Inflorescence an elongate, lax, 6-10-flowered spike. Bracts 7-10 mm, narrowly lanceolate. Calyx 15-18 mm, tubular, sparsely pilose; teeth c. 3 mm, lanceolate. Corolla greenish-yellow; standard 22-25 mm. Style glabrous. Legume 25-40 mm, oblong, glabrous, sessile; beak 2-3 mm. Sandstone slopes in steppe, 850-2100 m.

Caucasia, N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.