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Astragalus ponticus PALL. |
Astragalus ponticus PALL. |
Astragalus L. |
| A. ponticus Pall., Astrag. 14, t. 11 (1800). Syn: A. chlorotaenius Freyn & Sint. in Öst. Bot. Zeitschr. 42:12 (1892). Ic: Bot. Mag. 124: t. 7622 (1898). Map 40, p. 191. Erect caulescent perennial, 75-150 cm. Leaves 7-35 cm; leaflets 15-40 mm, oblong to narrowly ovate, obtuse, glabrous above, sparsely adpressed simple-pilose below, 11-23-paired; stipules 15-30 mm, lanceolate, sparsely adpressed-pilose. Inflorescence subsessile or with peduncles to c. 5 mm, 4-6 x c. 4 cm globose or ovate, dense, with 20-40 sessile flowers. Bracts 2-7 mm lanceolate to ovate, sparsely adpressed-pilose. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 10-13 mm, tubular, sparsely long-villous; teeth 2-3 mm, linear. Corolla yellow; standard 18-22 mm. Young legume ovate, compressed, pilose, included in calyx. Fl. 5-8. Dry banks, fields, roadsides etc., 900-2800 m. Syntypes: [Crimea] in littorale Tauricae praesertim in saxosa valle inter Sudac et Kutlac et in [Turkey] promontorio rupestre in Pontum (Tschobankalè) pro-currente. Widespread but local, though less common in E. Anatolia. A3 Bolu: 6 km S of Bolu, 900 m, D. 37309! A4 Kastamonu: Tosya, Uculuk-dere, Sint. 1892:4844! A5 Çorum: 12 km from Çorum to lskilip, 1000 m, Coode & Jones 1737! A6 Tokat: 6 km from Artova to Tokat, 1210 m, Hub.-Mor. 12903! A7 Gümüşane: d. Ketschi-Kale, Sint. 1889:6114! A8 Erzurum: 48 km from Erzurum to Yusufeli, 1000 m, Stn. & Hend. 6153! B2 Kütahya: 13 km from Demirci to Simav, 1340 m, Hub.-Mor. 12242! B3 Afyon: 9 km from Dinar to Denizli, Hub.-Mor. 5351! B6 Sivas: Kisylirnak. (Kizil Irmak) nr. Scheharkischla (Şarkişla), 1200 m, Siehe 1911:335! B8 Erzurum: Ilica to Tercan, 35 km W of Erzurum, 2000 m, D. 30866! B9 Van: Hoşap d., Kepir Da., 2800 m, D. 23348! C2 Burdur: 1 km S of Tefenni, 1150 m, Hub.-Mor. 9415! C3 lsparta: nr. lsparta, A. Baytop 4237! S. Russia, Crimea. A. idae Grossh. (Dokl. Akad. Nauk Azerb. SSR. 3:544, 1947) non širj., 1939, described from B8 Erzurum (at the base of Palendöken Da., Radde 77) is probably no more than a small form of A. ponticus. |