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| Astragalus kanjuensis in Ullah, Khan, Sultan, Ali et Mumtaz. 2024. |
Abstract
A new species Astragalus kanjuensis, is described and illustrated from Kanju Town, Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. The new species is morphologically similar to A. vallis-astoris Podlech & Zarre, but is characterized by densely white pilose young branches, short stipules 3.5–7 mm long, with 1–3 longitudinal nerves, elongate 2.5–6.3 cm long peduncles, pilose with white hairs, two-flowered raceme, whitish-membranous pilose bracts with white hairs, pedicels 3.5–5.5 mm long, densely pubescent with white hairs, relatively long standard up to 32 mm, ovary short-stipitate, style glabrous in the middle, legumes elliptic to oblong, 14–21×4–6.5 mm, beak abruptly curved 2–4 mm densely pubescent with white spreading hairs.
Aegacantha, Astragalus, Eudicots
Astragalus kanjuensis sp. nov.
Zahid Ullah, Amjad Khan, Amir Sultan, Ahmad Ali and Abdul Samad Mumtaz. 2024. Astragalus kanjuensis, A New Species of Section Aegacantha (Galegeae-Fabaceae) from Swat, Pakistan. Phytotaxa. 671(3);211-230. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1
