Astragalus sect. Onobrychoidei |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, clump-forming, caulescent; caudex superficial or shallowly subterranean. |
Stems | several to many. |
Leaves | odd-pinnate, petiolate or subsessile; leaflets (7–)11–25. |
Racemes | subspicate, densely flowered, flowers ascending. |
Corollas | whitish, bluish, reddish lilac, or magenta-purple, often drying bluish, nodding, mainly 13–19 mm, banner recurved through 25°, much surpassing keel, keel apex blunt or sharply deltate. |
Calyx | tubes short-cylindric. |
Legumes | often eventually deciduous, sessile or short-stipitate, erect [ascending], narrowly oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, ± straight, bilocular. |
Seeds | 9–16(–18). |
Hairs | malpighian. |
Stipules | connate. |
Astragalus sect. Onobrychoidei |
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Distribution | North America; Europe; Asia |
Discussion | Species 75 (1 in the flora). Section Onobrychoidei consists of species from Eurasia, except for one extending into the flora area. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 285. (1825) |
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