Family |
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)