taxonID	type	description	language	source
03221840FFC4EC77FF75F88B52DDF32D.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — TURKMENISTAN. Gaudan, in Monte Kular, 30 May 1898, D. I. Litwinow 1275 (Lectotype, LE!; isolectotypes LE!, MSB, W!) Perennial, 28 – 44 cm tall undershrub, covered in vegetative parts with ± medifixed, appressed hairs. Rootstock slender, branched, with somewhat elongated stolons. Stems branched, the older parts greyish brown, stems of the current year (2.5 –) 4.0 – 13 cm, greyish white, rather densely to very densely covered with appressed white hairs, only at the nodes also with black 0.5 – 1.0 mm hairs. Stipules greenish, 2 – 8 mm long, at the base 1.5 – 2.0 mm wide, narrowly triangular to lanceolate, shortly adnate to the petiole, densely white or white and black or predominantly black hairy. Leaves 3 – 9 cm; petiole 0.5 – 2.5 cm, slender like the rachis, hairy like the stem. Leaflets in 4 – 7 pairs, linear, (6 –) 10 – 21 × 1 – 2 mm, acute, on both sides rather densely covered with white 1 – 1.5 mm hairs. Peduncles 8 – 24 cm, densely covered with appressed white hairs, towards the raceme also with increasing black and often nearly basifixed and spreading hairs. Racemes subumbellate to subcapitate, nearly oblate, 3 – 4 cm long, densely (3 –) 5 – 14 - flowered, not elongating to somewhat elongate in fruit; axis covered with ascending to spreading white and black hairs. Bracts ovate-acuminate to narrowly triangular, 3 – 6 × 1 – 2 mm, densely covered with basifixed to subbasifixed, ascending to spreading white and black or predominantly black c. 1 mm hairs. Pedicels 1 – 2 mm, white and black hairy. Calyx tubular, 13 – 17 mm, gibbous at the base, obliquely cut at the mouth, rather densely covered with basifixed, tangled, ascending to spreading white 1.5 – 2 mm hairs and with ± appressed to subappressed, basifixed black 0.3 – 1 mm hairs in different relations; teeth subulate, 3 – 4.5 mm; calyx tube 10 – 13 mm. Petals pale yellowish, with faintly lilac standard. Standard 21 – 25 × 9 – 11 mm; blade obovate-orbicular to elliptic, rounded, slightly auriculate-angularly passing into the rather long claw. Wings 20 – 24 × 6.0 – 9.5 mm; blades narrowly obovate, obtuse; claw 14 – 14.5 mm. Keel 20 – 21 × 6.0 – 8.5 mm; blades semicircular, with widely curved lower edge and ± straight upper edge, acute; claw 12.5 – 14 mm. Stamens diadelphous (9 + 1); anthers c. 1 mm; stamen-tube c. 19 mm long, truncate at the mouth. Ovary white hairy c. 1 mm, with a stipe c. 1.5 mm, linear; style glabrous; ovule 0.5 – 0.6 mm. Legumes rupturing the calyx, sessile, erect, narrowly linear, straight or scarcely curved, 30 – 42 mm long, 3 mm high, 2.5 mm wide, keeled ventrally, slightly grooved dorsally, acute, nearly fully bilocular; valves covered with subappressed to slightly ascending or even spreading, symmetrically to asymmetrically medifixed, somewhat flexuose black hairs 0.3 – 1.0 mm and with mostly somewhat longer and often basifixed to subbasifixed white hairs in different relations. Seeds many, rectangular-oblong, 3.0 × 1.2 mm, olive brownish, smooth. Specimens examined: — IRAN. Razavi Khorassan: N Quchan, Aselmeh Mountains, 2200 m, 15 June 2003, Joharchi & Ghahremaninejad 34736 - b, 34738 - b (FUMH!, T!); E Bajgiran, Aselmeh Mountains, 11 km on the special road to the border Guard Station, N 37 ° 38 ’ 25.5 ” and E 58 ° 29 ’ 58.9 ”, 1930 – 1980 m, 2 June 2020, Joharchi & Memariani 46837 (FUMH!); — TURKMENISTAN. Ashkabad: Zentr. Kopet Dagh, distr. Geok-Tepe, Gory (Mountain) Duschak, 2000 m, 20 June 1961, Nikitin s. n. (G, M, W!); Gaudan, in Monte Kular, 30 May 1898, Litwinow 1275 (LE!, W!).	en	Ghahremaninejad, Farrokh, Joharchi, Mohammad Reza, Memariani, Farshid, Behroozian, Maryam (2022): Astragalus nigriceps (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae): an emended description with new data on distribution and conservation status. Phytotaxa 536 (3): 243-251, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.536.3.4
