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Habit Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex superficial.
Stems

several to many.

Leaves

odd-pinnate, short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (9 or)11–19(or 21).

Racemes

loosely flowered, flowers spreading.

Corollas

pink-purple, banner striate with purple veins, banner recurved through 30–40°, keel apex obtuse.

Calyx

tubes campanulate.

Legumes

ultimately deciduous, stipitate, declined, obliquely ovoid, strongly incurved, 3-sided obcompressed, long-cuspidate apically, grooved dorsally, semibilocular.

Seeds

17–21.

Hairs

basifixed.

Stipules

distinct.

Astragalus sect. Inyoenses

Distribution
sw United States
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 482. (1964)
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