Astragalus cimae var. cimae
Astragalus sect. Malaci
Cima milk vetch
single or few to many.
odd-pinnate, usually petiolate, sometimes short-petiolate or subsessile;
leaflets (5–)9–29.
sometimes subcapitate, usually loosely flowered, flowers ascending or spreading to declined.
usually reddish violet, reddish purple, pink-purple, purplish, ochroleucous, or whitish, sometimes suffused with purple, banner recurved through 30–45°, keel apex obtuse.
tubes cylindric or campanulate-cylindric.
usually strongly incurved, not or slightly inflated, 15–25 × 8–12 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous;
septum to 1.8 mm wide;
stipe 6–8 mm.
deciduous or persistent, stipitate or subsessile, recurved, humistrate and ascending or descending or reclining, or erect, narrowly oblong, oblong-ellipsoid, or cylindric, incurved or ± straight, compressed laterally or dorsiventrally or 3-sided, ± bilocular or subunilocular.
16–36.
basifixed.
distinct.
Astragalus cimae var. cimae
Astragalus sect. Malaci
Variety cimae is restricted to the New York Mountains and immediate vicinity in eastern San Bernardino County in California, and Mineral and Nye counties in Nevada.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Species 9 (9 in the flora).
Section Malaci consists of four subsections: subsect. Cibarii Barneby (Astragalus cibarius); subsect. Ensiformes Barneby (A. ensiformis, A. malacoides, A. minthorniae); subsect. Vallares (M. E. Jones) Barneby (A. cimae, A. vallaris); and subsect. Malaci (M. E. Jones) Barneby (A. chamaemeniscus, A. holmgreniorum, A. malacus).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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