Fabaceae

Astragalus cylindraceus

Astragalus L. Astragalus cylindraceus DC. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: dağ bozkırları Minimum yükseklik: 1500 Maksimum yükseklik: 3050 Endemik: endemik Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: KD., O. ve D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:A6 A7 A8 B5 B7 B8 B9

A. cylindraceus DC, Astrag. 223 (1802). Syn: A. melinus Boiss., Fl. Or. 2:446(1872)!   Scapose, perennial herb with a woody caudex. Leaves 6-14 cm; leaflets 8-12 mm, narrowly elliptic, bifurcate-sericeous, 7-12-paired; stipules 10-12 mm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate with a long subulate tip, joined to the petioles at their bases. Peduncles 10-20 cm. Inflorescence 3-3.5 x 2-3 cm, a dense, globose to oblong, 15-40-flowered spike. Bracts 6-10 mm, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate. Bracteoles absent or c. 5 mm, linear. Calyx 10-12 mm, tubular, ±spreading-hairy with black bifurcate and long white simple hairs; teeth c. 4 mm, linear. Corolla yellow; standard 15-18 mm, lamina oblong-ovate. Legume c. 6x3 mm, ovoid, long white simple-pilose-villous; beak c. 1 mm, curved. Fl. 5-7. Mountain steppe, 1500-3050 m.   Type: [Turkey] 'Armenia', Tournefort.   N.E., C. & E. Anatolia. A6 Sivas: Yildiz Da., 2200-2500 m, Bornm. 1890:2087! A7Trabzon: Meryemana, 1650 m, 6 vii 1961, Alpay (ANKO 25088)! A8 Gümü-şane: 41 km from Bayburt to Aşkale, 2100 m, Hub.-Mor. 12899! B5 Kayseri: nr. Tchoumakli at the base of Erciyas Da., 1600 m, Kotschy 218 (syntype of A. melinus)! Ali Da.. 7 km S E of Kayseri. 1500 m, Bal. 930 (syntype of A. melinus)! B7 Elaziğ: Egin (Kemaliye), Jokari Da., S int. 1890:2536. B8 Erzurum: Palen-döken Da., 20-23 km from Çat to Erzurum, 2300-2350 m, D. 47362b! B9 Van: Artos Da., 3050 m, D. 22752!   Endemic: Ir.-Tur. element. Possibly allied to A. hirsutus. A specimen from A7 Giresun (Tamdere Köy, 50 km S of Giresun. 2400 m, 7 vii 1958, Markgraf!), which differs from typical A. cylindraceus in having smaller leaves (c. 2 cm), probably belongs to this species. The absence of bracteoles in A. cylindraceus and their presence in A. me Units is the only character that separates these two taxa. We have therefore reduced the latter to synonymy.