Astragalus cimae var. sufflatus
Astragalus sect. Malaci
bladdery Cima milk vetch, Cima milkvetch, Darwin milkvetch, inflated Cima milkvetch
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.
straight to moderately incurved, much inflated, 30–37 × 13–21 mm, fleshy becoming papery;
septum 2–3.5 mm wide;
stipe 5–8 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. sufflatus
Astragalus sect. Malaci
Variety sufflatus occurs on the eastern slope of the Inyo Mountains, near the southern end of Saline Valley, Inyo County.
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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).
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