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Plant Sciences

1987

Astragalus

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Astralagus Ertterae (Fabaceae), A New Species From The Southern Sierra Nevada, Rupert C. Barneby, James R. Shevock Jan 1987

Astralagus Ertterae (Fabaceae), A New Species From The Southern Sierra Nevada, Rupert C. Barneby, James R. Shevock

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Astragalus ertterae, a new species from pinyon pine woodlands, southern Sierra Nevada, Kern County, California, is described and illustrated. This remarkable new species is morphologically closest to A. bicristatus in sect. Bicristati but differs in its dwarf stature, pilose indumentum, short peduncles, somewhat smaller flowers, and especially in a pod only half as long and proportionately twice as plump.


More New Astragali From Turkey, Kit Tan, F. Sorger Jan 1987

More New Astragali From Turkey, Kit Tan, F. Sorger

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Nine new species of Astragalus representing four sections of the genus are described from central, south and east Anatolia and illustrated.