Fabaceae |
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Astragalus L. |
A. angustiflorus C. Koch in Linnaea 15:720 (1841). Erect scapose perennial with a simple, woody caudex. Leaves 15-35 cm; leaflets 10-28 mm, obovate to broadly elliptic, with rounded or subcordate base, glabrous to villous, obtuse, retuse or subacute, 7-11-paired; stipules 12-20 mm, lanceolate. Peduncles 0.5-2(-4) cm. Flowers pedicellate, in conferted, 4-8-flowered racemes. Bracts 6-8 mm, linear-lanceolate. Calyx 12-14 mm, tubular, glabrous or very sparsely villous; teeth 3-8 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate. Corolla yellow; standard 22-28 mm. Style glabrous. Legume 25-35 mm, oblong, glabrous to sparsely villous, sessile; beak c. 5 mm. Fl. 5-6. 1. Leaflets and leaf rachis villous; standard ligulate, claw 6-12 mm 2. Standard claw c. 12 mm; rachis and leaflets usually ± densely villous on both surfaces subsp. anatolicus 2. Standard claw 6-8 mm; rachis and lower surface of leaflets sparsely hairy subsp. amanus 1. Leaflets and rachis glabrous or with very few, scattered hairs; standard cuneate, claw c.12 mm subsp. angustiflorus subsp. angustiflorus. Map 24, p. 113. Syn. A. hymenochlaenus Fisch. ex Bunge, Astrag. Geront. 2:51 (1869). Open rocky places, steppe, 750-2380 m. Syntypes: Transcaucasia, in tractu Schuragel et [Turkey A9 Kars] in satrapea Kars, Koch. E. Anatolia. B9 Van: nr. Van, Noë 1085! Bitlis: Ahlat, 1750 m, D. 43391! B10 Kars: N.W. slopes of Ağri Da., below Serdar Bulak, 1500 m, D. 43695! Ağri: 7-9 km from Iran border to Doğubayazit, 1650 m, D. 43948! C9 Siirt: above Şirnak, 1450 m, D. 42362! C10 Hakkari: Zap gorge, 9 km from Hakkari to Van, 1200 m, D. 44932! Soviet Armenia. Ir.-Tur. element. |