Fabaceae

Astragalus aintabicus

Astragalus L. Astragalus aintabicus BOISS. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: çalı Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: nadas tarlaları, tepe etekleri Minimum yükseklik: 750 Maksimum yükseklik: 1300 Endemik: endemik Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:C6

A. aintabicus Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(9):86 (1849). Syn: A. dueluekensis Širj. & Rech. fil. in Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien 58:72 (1951)! Ic: Ark. Bot. 5(1): t. 14 (1957).   Laxly branching shrub, 20-30 cm. Leaf rachis spiny, 12-16 cm, incurved. Leaflets 8-14 mm, narrowly elliptic, spine-tipped, sparsely simple-spreading-hairy below, glabrous above, 7-11-paired. Stipules 8-10 mm, lanceolate. Flowers sessile, 3-5 per leaf axil. Inflorescence globose, c. 3 cm diam., c. 30-flowered. Bracts 6-10 mm, ovate-lanceolate, navicular, sparsely pilose above. Bracteoles 4-5 mm, lanceolate, scarious. Calyx 9-14 mm, spreading-villous; lobes divided to the base though apparently forming a tube 4-6 mm, long. Flowers pink (drying purple); standard 18-20 mm. Fl. 5-7. Fallow fields, hillsides, etc., 750-1300 m.   Type: [Turkey C6 Gaziantep] Syria boreali prope Aintab (Gaziantep), 1837, Aucher 1257 (iso. G! K!).   S. Anatolia. C6 Gaziantep: S of Kizilhisar De., between Gaziantep and Kilis, 30 km from Gaziantep, 750 m, D. 28012! Dülük Baba, c. 1300 m, Haradj. 1354 (type of A. dueluekensis)!   Endemic. Allied to A. hilaris.