Astralagus, Curran, 1885

Ghahremaninejad, Farrokh, Bagheri, Ali & Maassoumi, Ali Asghar, 2012, Two new species of Astragalus L. sect. Incani DC. (Fabaceae) from the Zanjan province (Iran), Adansonia (3) 34 (1), pp. 59-65 : 60-62

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Genus Astralagus L. sect. Incani DC.

In Candolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis View in CoL 2: 304 (1825). — Lectotype: A. incanus L. (designated by Podlech [1990]).

DESCRIPTION

Herbaceous plants or rarely woody at the base, usually acaulescent; stipules free; leaves imparipinnate, rarely tri- or unifoliate; inflorescence dense or lax, usually long pedunculate; bibracteolate; calyx cylindric; pods sessile or stipitate, very variable in form, bilocular, coriaceous to lignified ( Ghahremaninejad 2004a).

REMARKS

The centre of diversity of this section is the Armeno- Iranian floristic province of the Irano-Turanian region ( Takhtajan 1986). The species of this section are distributed in Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, West Asia, Caucasus, North Africa and Europe.

This section is the largest and most common bifurcate hairy section in Iran. It has a vast distribution zone in Iran, and occupies a large part of the country in the Elburz and Zagros mounts in north and west Iran ( Ghahremaninejad 2004b). Its endemism ratio is more than 75% (based on Ghahremaninejad & Bagheri 2009; Podlech et al. 2010).

References

GHAHREMANINEJAD F. 2004 a. - Value of trichome characteristics for the separation of bifurcating hairy Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) at the sectional level. Turkish Journal of Botany 28: 241 - 245.

GHAHREMANINEJAD F. 2004 b. - The sections of Astragalus L. with bifurcating hairs in Iran. Turkish Journal of Botany 28: 101 - 117.

GHAHREMANINEJAD F. & BAGHERI A. 2009. - Astragalus andabadensis (Fabaceae), a new species of Astragalus sect. Incani from Zanjan province, Iran. Iranian Journal of Botany 15 (2): 175 - 177.

PODLECH D. 1990. - Die Typifizierung der altweltlichen Sektion der Gattung Astragalus L. (Leguminosae). Mitteilungen der Botanische Staatssammlung Munchen 29: 461 - 494.

PODLECH D., ZARRE S. H., MAASSOUMI A. A., EKICI M. & SYTIN A. 2010. - Papilionaceae VI. Astragalus IV, in RECHINGER K. H. (ed.), Flora Iranica 178. Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien: 155 - 415.

TAKHTAJAN A. L. 1986. - Floristic Regions of the World. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 522 p.