Astragalus limnocharis

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Overview

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Astragalus

Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs . Leaf paripinnate or imparipinnate , rarely unifoliolate or digitately trifoliolate ; leaflets entire, stipels absent; stipulate . Inflorescence racemose, spicate umbellate or solitary; peduncles generally axillary . Flowers bracteate ; bracteoles present or absent; pedicellate or sessile, violet or purple to white or pale yellow. Calyx tubular , teeth subequal . Vexillum ovate , obovate , oblong , panduriform or sometimes appendiculate Wing and keel generally with long claws . Stamens diadelphous , vexillary stamen free, rest (9) united , anthers uniform . Ovary sessile or stipitate , glabrous or pubescent ; style straight or incurved , stigma mostly terminal , sometimes penicillate . Fruit sessile or stipitate, 2-valved, unilocular , partly or completely bilocular by an intrusive membrane . Seed often reniform .

Astragalus is one of the biggest Angiospermous genera with about 1600 species widely distributed in the Old and the New World. In Pakistan it is represented by about 135 species.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,910 meters (0 to 6,266 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Barneby Publication : Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 236 1946

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Astragalus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 667 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. aboriginum (Indian Milk-Vetch) · A. aboriginum var. aboriginum (Indian Milk-Vetch) · A. accidens (Rogue River Milk-Vetch) · A. accidens var. accidens (Rogue River Milkvetch) · A. accidens var. hendersonii (Henderson's Milkvetch) · A. accumbens (Zuni Milk-Vetch) · A. ackermanii (Ackerman's Milk-Vetch) · A. acutirostris (Beaked Milk-Vetch) · A. adanus (Boise Milkvetch) · A. adsurgens (Rattle Milk-Vetch) · A. adsurgens var. tananaicus (Standing Milkvetch) · A. aequalis (Clokey Milk-Vetch) · A. agnicidus (Humboldt County Milkvetch) · A. agrestis (Cock's-Head) · A. albens (Cushenbury Milk-Vetch) · A. albulus (Cibola Milkvetch) · A. allochrous (Halfmoon Milkvetch) · A. allochrous var. playanus (Halfmoon Milkvetch) · A. allotricholobus (Astragal Inachevolosistobobovy) · A. alopecurus (Fuchsschwanz Tragant) · A. alpinus (Alpen Tragant) · A. alpinus alpinus (Alpine Milkvetch) · A. alpinus alpinus var. alpinus (Alpine Milkvetch) · A. alpinus var. brunetianus (Alpine Milk-Vetch) · A. alpinus subsp. alaskanus (Astragal Alpiyski Alaskinski) · A. alpinus subsp. arcticus (Astragal Alpiyski Arkticheski) · A. altus (Tall Milkvetch) · A. alvordensis (Alvord Milk-Vetch) · A. amblytropis (Challis Milk-Vetch) · A. americanus (American Milk-Vetch) · A. amnis-amissi (Custer Milkvetch) · A. amphioxys (Crescent Milkvetch) · A. amphioxys var. amphioxys (Crescent Milkvetch) · A. amphioxys var. modestus (Crescent Milkvetch) · A. amphioxys var. vespertinus (Aladdin Slippers) · A. ampullarius (Gumbo Milkvetch) · A. andersonii (Anderson's Milkvetch) · A. anisus (Gunnison Milkvetch) · A. anserinus (Goose Creek Milkvetch) · A. anxius (Troubled Milkvetch) · A. applegatei (Applegate's Milk-Vetch) · A. aquilonius (Lemhi Milk-Vetch) · A. arenarius (Arenarious Milk-Vetch) · A. argophyllus (Dana Milkvetch) · A. argophyllus var. argophyllus (Silverleaf Milkvetch) · A. argophyllus var. martinii (Silver-Leaf Milkvetch) · A. argophyllus var. panguicensis (Silverleaf Milkvetch) · A. aridus (Annual Desert Milkvetch) · A. arizonicus (Arizona Locoweed) · A. arrectus (Palouse Milk-Vetch) · A. arthurii (Arthur Milk-Vetch) · A. asclepiadoides (Bird Milk-Vetch) · A. asymmetricus (Horse Locoweed) · A. atratus (Darwin Mesa Milkvetch) · A. atratus var. atratus (Mourning Milkvetch) · A. atratus var. inseptus (Fairfield Milkvetch) · A. atratus var. owyheensis (Owyhee Milk-Vetch) · A. atropubescens (Hangingpod Milkvetch) · A. austiniae (Austin Milk-Vetch) · A. australis (Indian Milk-Vetch) · A. beathii (Beath Milk-Vetch) · A. beatleyae (Beatley Milk-Vetch) · A. beckwithii (Beckwith's Milk-Vetch) · A. beckwithii var. beckwithii (Beckwith's Milkvetch) · A. beckwithii var. purpureus (Beckwith's Milkvetch) · A. beckwithii var. sulcatus (Beckwith's Milkvetch) · A. beckwithii var. weiserensis (Weiser's Milkvetch) · A. bernardinus (Lesser Threekeel Milkvetch) · A. bibullatus (Guthrie's Ground-Plum) · A. bicristatus (Crested Milkvetch) · A. bisulcatus (Two Groove Milkvetch) · A. bisulcatus var. haydenianus (Hayden Milkvetch) · A. bisulcatus var. major (Twogrooved Milkvetch) · A. bisulcatus var. nevadensis (Nevada Milkvetch) · A. bodinii (Bodin Milkvetch) · A. bodinii var. bodinii (Bodin´s Milk-Vetch) · A. bolanderi (Bolander's Milkvetch) · A. bourgovii (Bourgeau's Milk-Vetch) · A. brandegeei (Brandegee Milk-Vetch) · A. brauntonii (Braunton's Milkvetch) · A. brazoensis (Brazos Milkvetch) · A. breweri (Brewer Milkvetch) · A. californicus (Klamath Basin Milk-Vetch) · A. callithrix (Callaway Milkvetch) · A. calycosus (King's Milkvetch) · A. calycosus var. calycosus (Torrey Milkvetch) · A. calycosus var. mancus (Torrey´s Milk-Vetch) · A. calycosus var. monophyllidius (One-Leaflet Torrey Milk-Vetch) · A. calycosus var. scaposus (Torrey Milkvetch) · A. camptopus (Bruneau Milkvetch) · A. canadensis (Canada Milkvetch) · A. canadensis var. brevidens (Canada Milkvetch) · A. canadensis var. mortonii (Morton's Canadian Milkvetch) · A. caricinus (Buckwheat Milkvetch) · A. casei (Case's Milkvetch) · A. castaneiformis (Chestnut Milk-Vetch) · A. castetteri (Castetter Milk-Vetch) · A. ceramicus (Painted Milk-Vetch) · A. ceramicus var. apus (Painted Milk-Vetch) · A. ceramicus var. ceramicus (Painted Milkvetch)

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 344.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1987 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 366, p. 368.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 41 1981 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 11, p. 11, p. 12, p. 13, p. 16, p. 161, p. 182, p. 20, p. 261, p. 287, p. 291, p. 349.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• Nghia, N.H. 1998. Dalbergia entadoides. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
• Pippen, Jeffrey S. Jeff's Nature Page. Accessed December 8, 2007.
• Podlech D, 1996 (from ILDIS).
• Polhill RM, 1993 (from ILDIS).
• Rhytismatales database 2006.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Schrire BD, 1994-10 (from ILDIS).
• Sokoloff DD, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
• Stirton CH, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• The Virtual Field Herbarium.
• Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
• Vaz AMSF, 2001-05 (from ILDIS).
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Adenanthera intermedia. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• van der Maesen LJG, 1993 (from ILDIS).
• van der Maesen, LJG, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2650504
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-10831
• GRIN Nomen Number: 320013
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 25563
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB0F4U0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ASLI3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 23734

Footnotes

1. "Astragalus". in Flora of Pakistan page 121. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 672.170 meters (2,205.282 feet), Standard Deviation = 2,666.640 based on 12 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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