Family |
Fabaceae
Astragalus angustifolius
Lam.
Astragalus angustifolius Lam.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, Pl. CLI nº 2; 1983)
Life-form & habit: Compact cushion-forming subshrub, 10–50 cm tall, with closely spaced, spinose petiole-bearing branches, densely appressed-canescen between the stipules.
Leaves: 3–7 cm long; petioles and rachis yellowish; terminal spine shorter than the leaflets. Leaflets in 6–10 pairs, small, oblong, folded, and densely canescent.
Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles shorter than the leaves, ending in a compact, few-flowered head. Bracts as long as the pedicel.
Calyx: Short-tubular, 7–8 mm, yellowish with white hairs. Teeth one-third the length of the tube.
Corolla: Pale yellowish-white, 15–18 mm; standard clearly exceeding the wings and keel.
Fruit: Legume 1.5 times the length of the calyx, oblong, subtriquetrous, appressed-canescen, acute and mucronate.
Phenology: Flowers from May to July.
Habitat & elevation: Mountain habitats.
Lebanese distribution: Mm. Sir-ed-Denniyé, above Dimane, Cedars, Jourd Tannourine, Mar Sema‘ane, Jabal Matrafé, Jabal Qarnita, Marj ‘Asfour; Me. Col des Cèdres, base of Qornet es-Saouda; Ve. North of Aïnata.
Syrian distribution: A.L. Tala'at Moussa, Birket el-Foukhté; NLatt. summit of Jabal el-Cassius.
Native range: Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cassius, Amanus, Lebanon, Syria