Fabaceae

Astragalus lagurus

Astragalus lagurus

Astragalus lagurus

Astragalus L. Astragalus lagurus WILLD. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: çalı Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: bozkır, dağlar, tepelikli meralar Minimum yükseklik: 1200 Maksimum yükseklik: 2890 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: Karasal Anadolu Genel dağılımı: KB. ve B. İran, Ermenistan, Gürcistan Bulunduğu kareler:A6 A8 A9 B5 B10

A. lagurus Willd., in Mem. Acad. Berol. 28 (1794). Syn: A. nervistipulus Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss., Fl. Or. 2:284 (1872). Map 39, p. 191.   Dwarf cushion-forming shrub with short stems. Leaves 3-15 cm; rachis spiny; leaflets 10-20 mm, oblong-lanceolate, spine-tipped, both surfaces densely simple-subsericeous, 5-9-paired; stipules 10-17 mm, lanceolate, glumaceous, joined to more than ½-way, margin ciliate. Peduncles scapiform, 3-25 cm, simple white-pilose, usually far exceeding leaves. Flowers in dense oblong 10-50-flowered spikes. Bracts 10-22 mm, oblong, acuminate, glumaceous, lower surface simple-white-sericeous, hairs sometimes sparse or confined to midrib. Calyx 13-17 mm, tubular, becoming somewhat inflated, long simple-white-pilose; teeth 7-9 mm, setaceous. Corolla pale yellow (sometimes pink?), turning purplish with age; standard 14-23 mm. Legumes unknown. Fl. 6-8. Steppe, mountains, hilly pasture, 1200-2890 m.   Inner Anatolia. A6 Sivas: Yildiz Da., 1400 m, Tobey 2314! A8 Gümüşane: nr. Bayburt, Bourgeau 74! A9 Erzurum: between Ağri and Horasan, 2000-2500 m, Rech 32805! B5 Kayseri: Ali Da., Talas, 1600 m, Balls 1395! B6 Sivas: 3 km S E of Yildizeli to Sivas, 1400 m, Hub.-Mor. 15069! B7 Erzincan: foot of Keşiş Da. above Cimin, 2200 m, D. 31705! B8 Erzurum: 50 km W of Erzurum, 1900 m, Markgraf 10936! B9 Bitlis: Nemrut Da., 1950 m, Birand & Karamanoğlu 282! B10 Ağri: Hama Da., Doğubayajit, 2400 m, Bay top 4853!   N.W. & W. Iran, Soviet Armenia, Georgia. Ir.-Tur. element. The following specimens agree with A. lagurus except in their pink corolla colour: B7 Tunceli: Pülümür, 1600 m, D. 30926! B9 Bitlis: Nemrut Da., 3050 m, 30 vi 1966, Tong!