Astragalus austraegaeus, Rech. fil.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 114

32. A. austraegaeus Rech. fil. , Phyton (Austria) 1: 202 (1949)

( A. tauricola auch, non Boiss.).

Acaulescent, with branched stock, or stems up to 5 cm. Leaves 4-12 cm; leaflets 12-16 pairs, oblong-ovate, acute, densely hairy beneath with appressed or ascending hairs, sparsely so above. Peduncles 1-1 | times as long as leaves; racemes oblong. Calyx 12-13 mm, the teeth c. | as long as tube. Corolla yellowish, violet at apex; standard 15-22 mm, attenuate and emarginate at apex. Legume 8-10 mm, ovoidtrigonous, with dense, semi-appressed, white hairs; beak curved. S. Aegean region (Karpathos, Kasos). Cr. (Rodhos.)