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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 755. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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General/Distribution: Astragalus is one of the biggest Angiospermous genera with about 1600 species widely distributed in the Old and the New World. In Pakistan it is represented by about 135 species.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Synopsis Of Sections And Species

GROUP A

Sect. Phyllolobium- Astragalus tribulifolius, A. hendersonii, A. heydei

Sect. Falcinellus- Astragalus amherstianus, A. eremophilus, A. bakaliensis, A. subumbellatus, A. scorpiurus

Sect. Coluteocarpus- Astragalus Coluteocarpus

Sect. Sesbanella- Astragalus falconeri, A. hoffmeisteri

Sect. Pendulina- Astragalus mirabilis, A. gahiratensis

GROUP B

Sect. Oxyglottis- Astragalus tribuloides, A. filicaulis, A. eremophilus, A. schimperi, A. oxyglottis

Sect. Poliothrix- Astragalus leucocephalus

Sect. Cycloglottis- Astragalus contortuplicatus

Sect. Swerzowia- Astragalus compositus

Sect. Ankylotus- Astragalus gracilipes, A. affghanus

Sect. Ophiocarpus- Astragalus ophiocarpus

Sect. Harpilobus- Astragalus corrugatus, A. campylorhynchus, A. hauarensis

Sect. Hemiphaca- Astragalus macropterus, A. densiflorus, A. melanostachys, A. clarkeanus

Sect. Christiana- Astragalus orthocarpus, A. zarghumensis, A. tephrosoides

Sect. Chlorostachys- Astragalus chlorostachys, A. bakeri, A. stewarti, A. concretus, A. maxwellii

Sect. Diplotheca- Astragalus graveolens

Sect. Heterozyx- Astragalus neubauerianus

Sect. Cenantrum- Astragalus frigidus, A. pseudochlorostachys

Sect. Himiphragmium- Astragalus oxyodon, A. maddenianus, A. himalayanus, A. strictus A. confertus

Sect. Lithophilus- Astragalus munroi, A. kashmirensis

Sect. Scheremeteviana- Astragalus scheremeteviana

Sect. Komaroviella- Astragalus jabbor-khailii, A. lowarensis

Sect. Malacothrix- Astragalus pseudo-beckii

Sect. Erionotus- Astragalus orbiclautus, A. chitralensis, A. polybotrys

Sect.Myobroma- Astragalus fernandezianus, A. concinnus, A. toppinianus, A. flexus, A. auganus, A. rhizocephalus, A. candolleanus, A. minutofoliolatus, A. gompholobium A. pyrrhotrichus, A. malacophyllus, A. webbianus, A. flemingii, A. staintonianus, A. rhizanthus, A. zanskaresis, A. pindreensis, A. nicharensis, A. purpurascens, A. gilgitensis, A. edelbergianus, A. sultani, A. sp. A

Sect. Cartillaginella- Astragalus retamocarpus

Sect. Chronopus- Astragalus albo-villosus

Sect. Mirae- Astragalus mirus

GROUP C

Sect. Podolotus- Astragalus hosackioides.

GROUP D

Sect. Aegacantha- Astragalus oihorensis, A. lasiosemius, A. leptus, A. psilocentros, A. lamondiae, A. pseudopsilacanthus, A. grahamianus, A. psilacanthus, A. hemsleyi, A. lamondiae, A. infestus, A. bicuspis, A. polyacanthus, A. oplites.

GROUP E

Sect. Platonychium- Astragalus strobiliferus

Sect. Macrothrix- Astragalus ghaznianus, A. neo-spinosus

Sect. Pterophorus- Astragalus ptilocephales

GROUP F

Sect. Poterium- Astragalus anisacanthus

Sect. Camplyanthus- Astragalus congestus, A. diopogon

Sect. Alopecias- Astragalus sericostachys

Sect. Eremophysa- Astragalus kahiricus

GROUP G

Sect. Hypsophilus- Astragalus nivalis

Sect. Chaetodon- Astragalus breviscapus

Sect. Cystodes- Astragalus medius

GROUP H

Sect. Caraganella- Astragalus trichocarpus, A. stocksii, A. koschukensis

Sect. Ammodendron- Astragalus squarrosus

Sect. Eudomus- Astragalus peduncularis

Sect. Xiphidium- Astragalus khalifatensis, A. droshensis, A. subuliformis, A. imitensis, A. xanthoxiphidiopsis

Sect. Onobrychium- Astragalus laspurensis

Sect. Proselius- Astragalus brahuicus, A. sykesiae, A. mangeri, A. holdichianus

Sect. Erioceras- Astragalus harsukhianus

Sect. Buceras- Astragalus hamosus

Sect. Harpocaulos- Astragalus fatmensis

Sect. Cystium- Astragalus skorniakovii


 

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Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. Leaf paripinnate or imparipinnate, rarely unifoliolate or digitately trifoliolate; leaflets entire, stipels absent; stipulate. Inflorescence racemose, spicate umbellate or solitary; peduncles generally axillary. Flowers bracteate; bracteoles present or absent; pedicellate or sessile, violet or purple to white or pale yellow. Calyx tubular, teeth subequal. Vexillum ovate, obovate, oblong, panduriform or sometimes appendiculate Wing and keel generally with long claws. Stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free, rest (9) united, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, glabrous or pubescent; style straight or incurved, stigma mostly terminal, sometimes penicillate. Fruit sessile or stipitate, 2-valved, unilocular, partly or completely bilocular by an intrusive membrane. Seed often reniform.
 

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1.Hairs basifixed
2.Stigma penicillate
2.Stigma not penicillate
3.Fruiting calyx become inflated
3.Fruiting calyx does not become inflated
4.Leaf imparipinnately compound
5.Endocarp of the unilocular fruit separating as a thin membrane enclosing the seeds
5.Endocarp of the fruit not separating as a thin membrane
4.Leaf paripinnately compound (raches hard and spiny)
6.Calyx obconic, pointed at the base (sessile flowers in the leaf axils)
6.Calyx not obconic
1.Hairs medifixed
7.Fruiting calyx becomes inflated
7.Fruiting calyx does not become inflated
 

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