{"id":12513,"date":"2020-11-10T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/astragalus-dactylocarpus-boiss\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:52:59","slug":"astragalus-dactylocarpus-boiss","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/astragalus-dactylocarpus-boiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Astragalus dactylocarpus Boiss."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subshrub or hemicryptophyte with woody base, 20-50 cm in height, slightly spiny due to the old rigid and persistent leaf petioles, with stems \u00b1 herbaceous, erect or ascending, covered by rigid applied hairs that give it a whitish appearance. Leaves 10-18 cm, with stipules 1-1.5 cm, triangular, membranous, persistent; with rigid rachis and petioles, petioles about 2 mm wide tapering toward the apex, persistent, not too sharp; with 15-30 pairs of leaflets, 0.4-1.2 \u00d7 0.3-0.4 cm, oblong-ovate, obtuse or retuse. Inflorescences in axillary racemes, with peduncles 1-5 cm and 2-5, with subsessile flowers. Calyx 1.4-1.6 cm, with 3-4 mm teeth, finely villous. Corolla 2.5-3.2 cm, papilionoid, yellow. Androecium diadelphous. Ovary stipitate. Pod (5)6-8.5 \u00d7 0.8 cm, stipitate, cylindrical, compressed, rarely inflated, woody, slightly arched and attenuated into a small sharp beak, surface longitudinally venose and reticulated, greenish or reddish, with 3-8 seeds. Seeds 5-6 mm, \u00b1 rectangular, flattened and brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Astragalus dactylocarpus","name_html":"<strong>Astragalus dactylocarpus <\/strong>Boiss.","short_description":"","common_names":"","other_name":"<em>Eng.<\/em>: Milkvetch.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre<\/em>.: Astragale.","flowering":"March to June.","fruiting":"June to September.","habitat":"Sandy plains and wadis in desert areas.","distribution":"Sinai, Palestine, Syria, Arabia, Iraq.","observations":"A subspecies has been described, subsp. <strong>acinaciferus <\/strong>(Boiss.) Eug.Ott, which does not seem be very consistent, and would correspond to specimens from the eastern Mediterranean, <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">including those of<\/span><\/span><\/span> Egypt (Sinai).\r\n\r\nOther similar species, spiny chamaephytes small in size, are:\r\n\r\n<strong> A. ibrahimianus<\/strong> Maire (<em>A. ochroleucus<\/em> Coss.). is a cushion-shaped chamaephytes, spiny, 20-30 cm in height. Spines green-yellowish when young, derived from the rachis of compound leaves, paripinnate, with (4)6-8 pairs of oval leaflets, whitish tomentose. Flowers an intense yellow. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, with a reddish base and yellowish-green tip with wide triangular teeth. Endemic to the high mountains of Morocco (2,200-3,400 m), in the NE Middle Atlas, central High Atlas and the Jebel Sirwa. It grows in mountain areas of limestone pastures.\r\n\r\n<strong> A. tragacantha <\/strong>L. [<em>A. massiliensis<\/em> (Mill.) Lam.]. is a cushion-shaped spiny plant, with paripinnate leaves, with 6-12 pairs of leaflets, villous-whitish, and inflorescences in racemes of 3-8 white flowers. It grows in the main central Mediterranean islands and in some mountains of central Tunisia (Jebel Kesra, Jebel Orbata). A coastal plant, typical of windy cliffs. Its presence in Algeria is doubtful.","conservation":"These species are not very common but do not appear to be threatened. 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