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Astragalus tegetarioides var. tegetarioides

Astragalus sect. Pulsiferani
Photo is of parent taxon

bastard kentrophyta, Deschutes milkvetch
Habit Herbs perennial, mat- or cushion-forming, prostrate or tufted, caulescent; caudex subterranean or superficial.
Stems

few to several.
Leaves

odd-pinnate, petiolate;

leaflets (3–)7–15.
Leaflets

7–11;

blades 1.5–5.5 mm.

Racemes

loosely 2–6(–8)-flowered, axis 13–18 mm.

densely or loosely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, or declined.
Flowers

4.4–6(–7) mm;

calyx (2.2–)2.6–3.7 mm, lobes 1–1.9 mm;

corolla whitish, banner with pale lilac veins;

banner recurved 70–100°.

Corollas

whitish or yellowish, banner lilac-veined or rose-purple, keel apex lilac, banner recurved through 60–100°, keel apex broadly deltate, obtuse, or bluntly triangular, sometimes obscurely beaked.
Calyx

tubes obconic-campanulate or shallowly campanulate.
Legumes

3.3–4.5 × 1.5–2.8 mm.

deciduous, sessile, spreading or declined (often humistrate), ovoid-lenticular, ovoid-ellipsoid, semi-ovoid, or lunately ellipsoid-obovoid, compressed laterally, both laterally and dorsiventrally and somewhat 3-sided, or bladdery-inflated, unilocular or subunilocular.
Seeds

2–9.
Pubescence

strigose-strigulose.

Hairs

basifixed.
Stipules

connate or distinct.

Astragalus tegetarioides var. tegetarioides

Astragalus sect. Pulsiferani
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Dry, pine forests and sagebrush communities.
Elevation 1300–1600 m. (4300–5200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
w United States
Discussion

Variety tegetarioides is known from Deschutes, Grant, and Harney counties. This variety superficially resembles Astragalus kentrophyta var. tegetarius, which is widespread from the Rocky Mountains to northeastern Oregon, and southward to Mono County, California.

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

Species 3 (3 in the flora).

Section Pulsiferani is more diminutive (Astragalus tegetarioides, A. tiehmii) than sect. Monoenses, or if of about the same habit and morphology, then the indumentum of the pod is thinly long-villous to villosulous.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Pulsiferani > Astragalus tegetarioides Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Sibling taxa
A. tegetarioides var. anxius
Subordinate taxa
Name authority unknown S. L. Welsh: N. Amer. Sp. Astragalus, 316. (2007)
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