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Caragana Lam., Encycl.Meth. 1:615. 1783. Baker in Hook.f., Fl.Brit.Ind.2: 115.1876; Komarov in Acta Horti petropol.29:199.1909; Parker, For.Fl.Punj. ed.3.133. 1956; Ali in Univ.Stud. (Karachi) 2(3):29.1965.
Trees or shrubs, leaf paripinnate or digitate, rachis ending in a spine or bristle, leaflets entire; stipules subulate or spinescent. Inflorescence solitary or pedicelled, a 2-3-flowered umbel. Bract and bracteoles often subulate. Calyx obliquely placed on pedicel, teeth deltoid or elongated. Corolla yellow, or whitish red. Vexillum ovate or suborbicular. Wing obliquely oblong. Keel straight, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, style straight or slightly incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit sessile, terete, 2-valved, unilocular, many-seeded.
A genus with about 80 species distributed in E. Europe and Asia; represented by 10 species in Pakistan.
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Leaf digitately compound |
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Leaf pinnately compound |
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Peduncle 3 mm or less long |
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Caragana brevifolia |
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Peduncle more than 3 mm long |
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Auricle of the wing more than 3 mm long |
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Caragana aurantiaca |
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Auricle of the wing 2 mm or less long |
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Caragana versicolor |
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Stipules not spiny |
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Caragana gerardiana |
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Stipules spiny, hard, at least on the old branches |
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Young fruit glabrous |
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Young fruit pilose |
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Longest calyx teeth c. 1 mm long |
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Caragana decorticans |
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Longest calyx teeth c. 5 mm long |
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Caragana tragacanthoides var. himalaica |
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Fruit curved, abruptly ending in a point |
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Caragana ambigua |
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Fruit not curved |
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Leaflets 4-6 |
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Leaflets 8-14 |
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Vexillum c. 25 mm long, leaflet oblanceolate |
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Caragana conferta |
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Vexillum less than 20 mm long, leaflet obcordate-
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Vexillum 15-18, leaflet obcordate-obovate |
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Caragana ulicina |
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Vexillum 10-11 mm long, leaflet obovate-elliptical |
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Caragana brachyantha |
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Leaflets obovate-elliptic, tip acute, mucronate |
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Caragana brachyantha |
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Leaflets obovate, tip obtuse mucronate |
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Fruit not torulose |
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Caragana brevispina var. brevispina |
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Fruit slightly torulose |
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Caragana brevispina var. catenata |
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List of lower taxa
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