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Published In: Enumeratio Methodica Plantarum 421. 1763. (Sep-Dec 1763.) (Enum. (ed. 2)) Name publication detail
 

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Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
General/Distribution: A genus with about 80 species distributed in E. Europe and Asia; represented by 10 species in Pakistan.

 

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Trees or shrubs, leaf paripinnate or digitate, rachis ending in a spine or bristle, leaflets entire; stipules subulate or spinescent. Inflorescence solitary or pedicelled, a 2-3-flowered umbel. Bract and bracteoles often subulate. Calyx obliquely placed on pedicel, teeth deltoid or elongated. Corolla yellow, or whitish red. Vexillum ovate or suborbicular. Wing obliquely oblong. Keel straight, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, style straight or slightly incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit sessile, terete, 2-valved, unilocular, many-seeded.
 

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1.Leaf digitately compound
2.Peduncle 3 mm or less long
 Caragana brevifolia
2.Peduncle more than 3 mm long
3.Auricle of the wing more than 3 mm long
 Caragana aurantiaca
3.Auricle of the wing 2 mm or less long
 Caragana versicolor
1.Leaf pinnately compound
4.Stipules not spiny
 Caragana gerardiana
4.Stipules spiny, hard, at least on the old branches
5.Young fruit glabrous
6.Longest calyx teeth c. 1 mm long
 Caragana decorticans
6.Longest calyx teeth c. 5 mm long
 Caragana tragacanthoides var. himalaica
5.Young fruit pilose
7.Fruit curved, abruptly ending in a point
 Caragana ambigua
7.Fruit not curved
8.Leaflets 4-6
9.Vexillum c. 25 mm long, leaflet oblanceolate
 Caragana conferta
9.Vexillum less than 20 mm long, leaflet obcordate- obovate or obovate-elliptical
10.Vexillum 15-18, leaflet obcordate-obovate
 Caragana ulicina
10.Vexillum 10-11 mm long, leaflet obovate-elliptical
 Caragana brachyantha
8.Leaflets 8-14
11.Leaflets obovate-elliptic, tip acute, mucronate
 Caragana brachyantha
11.Leaflets obovate, tip obtuse mucronate
12.Fruit not torulose
 Caragana brevispina Benth. var. brevispina
12.Fruit slightly torulose
 Caragana brevispina var. catenata
 
 
 
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