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Astragalus caucasicus Pall.Fabaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe

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Astragalus is the largest genus in the Caucasus (about 200 species); with very diverse ecology and external form, a densely branched shrub, 40–50 cm tall; branches up to 20 cm long, with tomentose internodes, densely clothed in stipules and spinescent leaf rachises; spines divergent, pubescent, slender, 2–7 cm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent at first, becoming glabrous, stramineous, subcoriaceous-membranous; leaflets 6–8 pairs, linear-lanceolate to oblong, cineraceous with appressed hairs, glabrate above, 7–10 mm long, to 2 mm broad, terminating in a strong prickle; bracts narrow, linear-navicular, acuminate, hairy on the back, about equaling or somewhat shorter than the calyx; flowers in 2’s or 3’s in the leaf axils.

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  1. Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  2. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  3. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

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Bussmann, R.W. et al. (2019). Astragalus caucasicus Pall.Fabaceae. In: Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe . Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77088-8_19-2

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