Onobrychis arnacantha Bunge

EXAMINED SPECIMEN. — Tajikistan. Passe de Koui-Kabra, vallée du Jagnaous (Kohistan), 3430 m. 6.VII.1881, G. Capus 365 (P [P02765934]) .

REMARK

Onobrychis Mill. is represented in Middle Asia by 20 species of annual, perennial and shrub plants distributed in Kyzyzlkum deserts up to alpine zone (Kovalevskaja 1981). More than half of them are known from Tajikistan (Abdusalamova 1978). Onobrychis arnacantha, was so far recorded from alpine zone of Iran area (Afghanistan, Iran) (Rechinger 1984) and it has never been previously recorded from Tajikistan (Khassanov 2015; Nowak et al. 2020).