| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Astragalus acinacifer Boiss. sect. Chronopus |
| Bibliography | Diagn. Pl. Orient. 9: 72 (1849) |
| Native Range | e. Medit. to Central Asia and Afghanistan, Arabian Peninsula |
| Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
| Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
| Description | adpressed hirsute, stipules triangular, leaves 15-25-jugate, leaflets minute, approximate, obcordate, adaxially glabrous, flowers few in shortly pedunculate raceme, pod pubescent |
| Size | 8-20cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Astragalus acinacifer var. racemosus (Oppenh.) Eig Astragalus calvescens Bunge Astragalus crassus Bunge Astragalus dactylocarpus ssp. acinacifer (Boiss.) E.Ott Astragalus gerensis Boiss. Astragalus kentrodes Buhse Astragalus kermanschahanenicus Širj. & Rech.f. Astragalus lepidotrichus Bornm. & Gauba Astragalus sieberi var. racemosus Oppenh. Astragalus spinescens Bunge Astragalus spinescens ssp. aitchisonii Eig Tragacantha acinacifera (Boiss.) Kuntze Tragacentha calvescens (Bunge) Kuntze Tragacantha crassa (Bunge) Kuntze Tragacantha gerensis (Buhse) Kuntze Tragacantha kentrodes (Buhse) Kuntze Tragacantha spinescens (Bunge) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran, IRQ Iraq, LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) 35 Arabian Peninsula (KUW Kuwait, SAU Saudi Arabia) |