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Fabaceae

Astragalus angulosus

DC.

Leb. Syr. Pal. Jor.

Astragalus angulosus DC.

(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, Pl. CXLIX nº 4; 1983)


  • Life-form & habit: Subacaulescent perennial with a sometimes shortly branched rhizome, densely canescent. Stems decumbent to ascending.

  • Leaves: 4–10 cm long with 5–10 pairs of ovate to slightly acute leaflets.

  • Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles longer than the leaves, slender, ending in a raceme of 6–12 flowers elongating at anthesis. Pedicels 2–3 mm, often longer than the narrow bracts. Bracteoles hirsute.

  • Calyx: 12–15 mm, sparsely covered with short, mostly black, medifixed hairs. Mouth oblique with unequal teeth, all less than one-third the length of the tube.

  • Corolla: Violaceous-purple, up to 3 cm. Standard long-attenuate, exceeding wings and keel by 7–8 mm.

  • Fruit: Legume straight, cylindrical, about 15 mm long, glabrescent, finely keeled ventrally, grooved dorsally, sometimes erect, spreading, or deflexed.

  • Phenology: Flowers from May to July.

  • Habitat & elevation: Woodlands and high-mountain pastures.

  • Lebanese distribution: Mm. Jisr-el-Hajar, Jabal Sannine, Khan Sannine, above Sir-ed-Denniyé, Bcharré, Jabal Qamou‘a; Ve. Aïnata, Hazerta.

  • Native range: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine/Israel (GBIF)

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