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Astragalus austrotibetanus Podlech & L. R. Xu
Xizang (Tibet): Luolong (Lhorong) Xian. Between the cities of Luolong (Lhorong) and Bianba (Banbar) on highway 303. Dry hillsides and base of cliffs; xeric spinescent shrub community, including Rosa, Ribes, Rhamnus, Caragana, with shrubby Artemisia, Elsholtzia fruticosa and Ceratostigma. 30°50'14"N, 95°41'4"E; 3415 m.
In dry, overgrazed meadow. Sepals green, with appressed to ascending white hairs and few appressed black hairs; petals pale purple, white at base, darker at apex. Avoided by grazing animals.
David E. Boufford, Bruce Bartholomew, Deren A. Eaton, Xin-Hui LI, Richard H. Ree, Bo XU, Ji-Pei YUE, Jian-Wen ZHANG & Xin-Xin ZHU
40815 20 July 2009
 
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