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Astragalus lagopodioides VAHL |
Astragalus lagopodioides VAHL |
Astragalus lagopodioides VAHL |
 Astragalus lagopodioides VAHL |
Astragalus L. |
| A. lagopodioides Vahl, Symb. 1:64 (1790). Syn: A. lagopoides sensu Bunge et Boiss., non Lam., Encycl. 1:323 (1783); A. zohrabi Bunge, Astrag. Geront. 2:112 (1869); A. splendens Širj. & Rech. f. in Symb. Bot. Upsal. 11 (5):21 (1952). Ic: Symb. Bot. Upsal. 11(5): 22 (1952). Dwarf short-stemmed shrub. Leaves up to 4 cm; rachis spiny; leaflets 4-7 mm, oblong to elliptic, acute, mucronate, both surfaces simple-pilose, usually densely so, 4-9-paired; stipules 8-10 mm, triangular-lanceolate, glumaceous, yellowish, united at base, glabrous but ciliate. Peduncles scapiform, spreading-hairy. Flowers in 8-30-flowered racemes. Bracts 7-13 mm, ovate, glumaceous, hairy on midrib of lower surface, margin hyaline. Calyx 10-15 mm, tubular at first, becoming inflated, reddish, long simple-white-pilose; teeth 5-10 mm, setaceous. Corolla pink to mauve; standard 15-20 mm. Legume unknown. Fl. 6-7. Steppe, rocky slopes, 1850-2880 m. Described from the Orient, Tournefort. E. Anatolia. A8 Gümüşane: nr. Bayburt, Bourgeau 69! B9 Van: d. Gürpinar, Çuh Gediği, between Hoşap and Başkale, 2800-2880 m, Hub.-Mor. 11447! Bitlis: Van G., 24 km W of Ercis, 2000 m, Cheese & Watson 1388! C10 Hakkari: 21 km from Bacirge to Yüksekova, 2230 m, D. 45232! Probably endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. According to the original description of A. lagopoides Lam., Encycl. 1:322 (1783), this species has yellow flowers, a point apparently overlooked by Boissier when he sank A. lagopodioides Vahl into it. It is possible that the observation on flower colour may apply to dried material, and if the flower colour of var. lagopoides is really purple, then the two species are synonymous. A. lagopoides was based on Tournefort's gathering from Armenia and therefore probably came from Turkey. Lamarck's A. lagopoides Lam. var. ß has purple flowers; this variety was taken up by several authors as being the same as A. lagopoides Lam. sensu stricto. As doubt surrounds the usage of the name A. lagopoides Lam., the later name A. lagopodioides is adopted here. |