Fabaceae

Astragalus siliquosus

Astragalus L. Astragalus siliquosus BOISS. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Habitat: bozkır, otlak, şistli kenarlar Minimum yükseklik: 1600 Maksimum yükseklik: 2250 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: GD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: K. ve B. İran Bulunduğu kareler:B9 C10

A. siliquosus Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(2): 51 (1843).   Erect, glabrous, caulescent perennial, 30-60 cm. Leaves 8-13 cm; leaflets 12-22 mm, oblong, apex rounded, apiculate to retuse, glabrous except for a few white spreading simple hairs on the underside of the leaflet midrib, 8-16-paired; stipules c. 6 mm, lanceolate, united to the petiole. Peduncles 7-10 cm. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in lax 25-35-flowered racemes. Bracts c. 3 mm, narrowly ovate. Calyx 8-10 mm, tubular, sparsely adpressed pubescent with black, simple and bifurcate hairs, sometimes with a few white longer simple hairs; teeth 1-2 mm, narrowly triangular. Corolla yellow to pale violet; standard 17-20 mm. Legume 30-35 x 3 mm, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, spotted, velutinous at first, becoming glabrous, pendulous; beak c. 2 mm. Fl. 5-6. Steppe, pastures, shaley banks, 1600-2250 m.   Type: Persia, Aucher 1360.   S.E. Anatolia. B9 Van: Haneke Da., 25 km N of Van, 1750 m, Cheese & Watson 1419! C10 Hakkari: 21 km from Bacirge to Yüksekova, 2230 m, D. 45223! Yüksekova, 1950 m, 23 v 1966, Eiselt!   N. & W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.