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Perennial; stem 40–90 cm long, more or less bent at nodes, branched, glabrous or with scattered short appressed white hairs; stipules broadly 5–20 cm long; leaflets 5–10 pairs, oblongly linear-lanceolate, 1–4 cm long and 0.4–1.5 cm broad, mucronate, the petiolules 0.5 mm long; racemes terminal, oblong, 8–27 cm long, densely many flowered, the long axillary peduncles exceeding leaves; pedicels the length of calyx; peduncles, bracts pedicels, and calyces very sparsely appressed-hairy; bracts narrowly linear, filiform, exceeding pedicel; calyx 4–5 mm long and 1.5 mm broad, the filiform teeth longer than the tube; corolla light bluish or almost white (var. persica (Pers.) Schmalh.); standard oblong-obovate, obtuse, ca. 1 cm long; wings ca. 1 cm long, with oblong auricles at base; keel obtuse, about equaling wings; pod stipitate, 2–4 cm long and 2.5–3 mm broad, glabrous, erect or horizontal (var. patula (Stev.) Schmalh.), septate between seeds; seeds reniform, 3 mm long and 1.5 mm broad, brownish, smooth, dull. Flowering June–August.
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Bussmann, R.W. et al. (2019). Galega orientalis Lam. Fabaceae . In: Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe . Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77088-8_63-2
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