Fabaceae

Astragalus czorochensis

Astragalus L. Astragalus czorochensis CHARADZE Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Habitat: ? Minimum yükseklik: -1 Maksimum yükseklik: 2400 Endemik: endemik Element: Karadeniz (Dağ) Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:A8 A9

A. czorochensis Charadze in Bull. Acad. Sci. Georg. SSR 3:462 (1942). Dwarf, procumbent, scapose perennial herb, with a woody base. Leaves 7-10 cm; leaflets 5-8 mm, obovate to orbicular, sparsely adpressed bifurcate-hairy below, glabrous above, glaucous, 5-8-paired; stipules 8-9 mm. lanceolate. Peduncles c. 4 cm. Inflorescence a 3-5-flowered raceme with shortly pedicellate flowers. Bracts 2-3 mm, lanceolate to oblong. Calyx 12-15 mm, tubular, glabrous or with a few scattered adpressed black or white bifurcate hairs; teeth c. 4 mm, linear. Corolla purple; standard c. 25 mm. Legume 16-21 x c. 3 mm. lanceolate, fiattish, sparsely white adpressed-hairy, ±spreading; beak c. 3 mm. Fl. 4-5. Ascending to 2400 m.   Type: [Turkey A8 Çoruh] in rupestribus ad ripam dextram fl. Czoroch (Çoruh Çay) infra Artwin, 10/23 iv 1908, Woronow 819 (holo. TBI. photo!).   N.E. Anatolia. A8 Çoruh: nr. Artvin. Turkevicz 499! A9 Erzurum: c. 8 kmabove llica. Kaçkar group, 2400 m. Cheese & Watson 215! Kars: nr. Kars (Grossheim 5: map 390).   Endemic; euxine (mt.) element. Allied to A. glaucophyllus and A. sanguino-lentus.