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Astragalus sect. Cenantrum
Habit Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex subterranean or superficial, with creeping caudex branches.
Stems

single or few to several.
Leaves

odd-pinnate, subsessile or short-petiolate;

leaflets (5 or)7–15.
Racemes

usually loosely, sometimes compactly, flowered, flowers nodding.
Corollas

white, cream, or yellowish with whitish margins, banner recurved through 35–45°, keel slightly shorter than wings, apex blunt or round.
Calyx

tubes campanulate or subcylindric.
Legumes

± persistent, pendulous, stipitate, obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid, ± inflated, usually bladdery, laterally compressed proximally, dorsiventrally compressed distally, unilocular.
Seeds

6–10.
Hairs

basifixed.
Stipules

distinct or proximalmost connate.

Astragalus sect. Cenantrum
Distribution
w North America; c North America; Europe; Asia
Discussion

Species 42 (2 in the flora).

Section Cenantrum is mainly Asiatic.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Phaca, A. section phaca
Name authority Bunge: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 11(16): 23. (1868)
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