Astragalus sect. Pachypodes |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, clump-forming, caulescent; caudex aerial. |
Stems | several to many. |
Leaves | odd-pinnate, short-petiolate or subsessile; leaflets 11–25(or 27). |
Racemes | loosely flowered, flowers ascending. |
Corollas | white, faintly lavender, or lemon yellow, banner recurved through 45°, keel apex obtuse. |
Calyx | tubes broadly campanulate. |
Legumes | persistent, stipitate, spreading or incurved-ascending, lunate or falcate, oblong-cylindroid, compressed laterally, sutures keeled, bilocular. |
Seeds | 20–36. |
Hairs | basifixed. |
Stipules | distinct. |
Astragalus sect. Pachypodes |
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Distribution | California |
Discussion | Species 1. Section Pachypodes occurs in the South Coast Ranges, western Mohave Desert, and interior southern California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. subg. jones |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 487. (1964) |
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