Caragana

<i>Caragana</i>

Caragana

Genus of legumes

Quick Facts Caragana, Scientific classification ...
Flowering caragana (camel's tail) in the south of Buryatia, Russia

Caragana is a genus of about 80–100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.

They are shrubs or small trees growing 1–6 m (3.3–19.7 ft) tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod.

Caragana species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including dark dagger.

Sections and species

Section Bracteolatae

  • Caragana ambigua Stocks
  • Caragana bicolor Kom.
  • Caragana brevispina Royle ex Benth.
  • Caragana conferta Benth. ex Baker
  • Caragana franchetiana Kom.
  • Caragana gerardiana Royle ex Benth.
  • Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
  • Caragana sukiensis C.K.Schneid.
  • Caragana tibetica (Maxim. ex C.K. Schneid.) Kom.

Section Caragana

  • Caragana arborescens Lam.
  • Caragana boisii C.K.Schneid.
  • Caragana bungei Ledeb.
  • Caragana korshinskii Kom.
  • Caragana microphylla Lam.
  • Caragana pekinensis Kom.
  • Caragana prainii C.K.Schneid.
  • Caragana purdomii Rehder
  • Caragana soongorica Grubov
  • Caragana stipitata Kom.
  • Caragana turkestanica Kom.
  • Caragana zahlbruckneri C.K.Schneid.

Section Frutescentes

  • Caragana aurantiaca Koehne
  • Caragana brevifolia Kom.
  • Caragana chinghaiensis Y.X. Liou
  • Caragana camilli-schneideri Kom.
  • Caragana frutex (L.) K.Koch
  • Caragana gobica Sanchir
  • Caragana kirghisorum Pojark.
  • Caragana laeta Kom.
  • Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
  • Caragana opulens Kom.
  • Caragana polourensis Franch.
  • Caragana pygmaea (L.) DC.
  • Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
  • Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehder
  • Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
  • Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
  • Caragana ussuriensis (Regel) Pojark.
  • Caragana versicolor Benth.

Unnamed section

  • Caragana bongardiana (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Pojark.[5]
  • Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou[5]
  • Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.[5]
  • Caragana roborovskyi Kom.[5]
  • Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.[5]

Basal species

Incertae sedis

  • Caragana afghanica Kitam.
  • Caragana alaica Pojark.
  • Caragana alaschanica Grubov
  • Caragana alexeenkoi Kamelin
  • Caragana alpina Y.X. Liou
  • Caragana arcuata Y.X. Liou
  • Caragana balchaschensis (Kom.) Pojark.
  • Caragana beefensis S.N. Biswas
  • Caragana brachypoda Pojark.
  • Caragana buriatica Peschkova
  • Caragana campanulata Vassilcz.
  • Caragana cinerea (Kom.) N.S. Pavlova
  • Caragana crassipina C. Marquand
  • Caragana cuneato-alata Y.X. Liou
  • Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
  • Caragana densa Kom.
  • Caragana erinacea Kom.
  • Caragana fruticosa (Pall.) Besser
  • Caragana grandiflora (M. Bieb.) DC.
  • Caragana halodendron (Pall.) Dum.Cours.
  • Caragana kansuensis Pojark.
  • Caragana kozlowii Kom.
  • Caragana leucospina Kom.
  • Caragana leveillei Kom.
  • Caragana limprichtii Harms
  • Caragana litwinowii Kom.
  • Caragana maimanensis Rech. f.
  • Caragana manshurica (Kom.) Kom.
  • Caragana polyacantha Royle
  • Caragana × prestoniae R.J. Moore
  • Caragana scythica (Kom.) Pojark.
  • Caragana shensiensis C.W. Chang
  • Caragana × sophorifolia Tausch
  • Caragana spinifera Kom.
  • Caragana turfanensis (Krasn.) Kom.
  • Caragana ulicina Stocks

Range maps

  • Range of the genus Caragana
  • Range of the section Bracteolatae
  • Range of the section Caragana
  • Range of the section Frutescentes

References

  1. [1]
    Zhang M, Fritsch PW, Cruz BC (2009). "Phylogeny of Caragana (Fabaceae) based on DNA sequence data from rbcL, trnS–trnG, and ITS". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 50 (3): 547–59. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001. PMID 19100848.
  2. [2]
    Zhang M, Fritsch PW (2010). "Evolutionary response of Caragana (Fabaceae) to Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau uplift and Asian interior aridification". Plant Syst Evol. 288 (3–4): 191–199. doi:10.1007/s00606-010-0324-z.
  3. [3]
    ILDIS records for genus Caragana
  4. [4]
    Caragana Lam. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. [5]
    These five species form a well-resolved, unnamed phylogenetic clade that may receive a Linnaean name at some future point.
  6. [6]
    These species form a grade that may collapse into one or more well-defined clades upon more extensive taxon sampling in molecular phylogenetic analysis.
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