Fabaceae

Astragalus sachanewii

Astragalus L. Astragalus sachanewii SIRJ. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 9 Habitat: topraklı yamaçlar Minimum yükseklik: 2600 Maksimum yükseklik: 3300 Endemik: endemik Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: GD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:B9 C9 C10

A. sachanewii Širj. in Feddes Rep. 52:12 (1943). Map 20, p. 73.   Dwarf, prostrate, much branched, suffrutescent perennial; stems 5-10 cm. Leaves 2-3 cm; leaflets 3-5 mm, elliptic, sparsely white simple-hairy below, hairs often restricted to margins above, 5-7-paired; stipules 3-4 mm, broadly ovate, fused for most of their length. Peduncles 3-4 cm. Flowers subsessile, 5-10 in a contracted, ovoid raceme or spike. Bracts c. 2 mm, broadly lanceolate. Calyx 5-7 mm, tubular, sparsely black and white, spreading, simple-hairy; teeth c. 1 mm. Corolla cream to violet; standard 12-14 mm. Ovary white-pilose, stipitate. Legume unknown. Fl. 7-9. Earthy slopes, 2600-3300 m.   Syntypes: [Turkey C9 Hakkari] Gelodagh (Cilo Da.) d. Gulamerik (Çöle-merik) ad tentiora aestive, Djezra, ad nives, 2800-2900 m, 3 iv 1910, Nábelek 3090 (BRA!); Hakkari, Kĕla Mame supra p. Hoz inter Hasitha et Sattak (Çatak), ad nives, c. 2600 m, 28 vii 1910, Nábélek 3104a (BRA!). S.E. Anatolia. B9 Van: Artos Da., 3050 m, D. 22827! C10 Hakkari: Kara Da., 3200 m, D. 24411!   Endemic; Ir.-Tur. element. Nâbelek originally identified the type specimens of this species as A. melanocarpus Bunge. A. sachanewii was originally placed in Sect. Malacothrix. It seems, however, to be close to such species as A. flaccidus Bieb. and A. viciifolius DC. in Sect. Hypoglottis. Without mature fruit it is difficult to be certain of its exact affinities. In fades it closely resembles A. xerophilus Ledeb. in Sect.   Onobrychium, but differs in its simple-hairy leaflets.