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Astragalus sinicus L.   (redirected from: Astragalus nankotaizanensis Sasaki)
Family: Fabaceae
[Astragalus lotoides Lam., moreAstragalus nankotaizanensis Sasaki, Astragalus nokoensis Sasaki, Astragalus sinicus f. albiflorus S.Okamoto, Astragalus sinicus var. macrocalyx Ulbr.]
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Japan Flora: Biennial, soft, slightly pubescent herb; stems slender, ascending from a pro­cumbent, branched base, 10-25 cm. long; leaves with petioles 2-5 cm. long, the stipules free, ovate, 3-6 mm. long, acute, the leaflets 9-11, thinly membranous, obovate to elliptic, 8-15 mm. long, rounded to emarginate; racemes umbellike, the peduncles 10-20 cm. long; flowers 7-10, about 12 mm. long, reddish purple, rarely white, the pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx about 4 mm. long, loosely white-pubescent, the teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube; legumes erect or ascending in one direction, subsessile, blackish, 2-25 cm. long, about 4 mm. wide, glabrous, gradually beaked. Apr.-June.

Very commonly cultivated for green manure in rice-fields, occa­sionally naturalized in our area. Formosa and China.

Astragalus sinicus
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