{"id":43034,"date":"2021-12-03T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/especies\/astragalus-gombo-coss-durieu-ex-bunge\/"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:30:27","slug":"astragalus-gombo-coss-durieu-ex-bunge","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/astragalus-gombo-coss-durieu-ex-bunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Astragalus gombo Coss. &#038; Durieu ex Bunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial herbaceous plant that up to 1 m in height or more, with little or no woody stems, not spiny, highly branched, erect or procumbent, white-tomentose. It has very large leaves, up to 30 cm, with 20-30 pairs of leaflets, broadly ovate or orbicular-chordate, hairy on the adaxial surface and pubescent whitish on the underside. Flowers in axillary clusters of 3-4, with short peduncle and pedicel of 1-2 mm. Velvety membranous calyx, 1-1.2 cm, with lanceolate teeth equal in length to the tube. Corolla 2-3 cm, papilionoid, of an intense yellow color. Androecium diadelphous. Ovary sessile. Pod 2.5-6.5 \u00d7 1-1.5 cm, slightly arched, non-woody, longitudinally venose, reticulated, tomentose white or brown, ending in a short beak (0.5-0.7 cm), with 10-30 seeds. Seeds less than 3 mm, reniform, brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Astragalus gombo","name_html":"<strong>Astragalus gombo<\/strong> Coss. & Durieu ex Bunge","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>A. fruticosus<\/em>\u00a0 subsp. <em>gombo\u00a0<\/em>(Bunge) Jafri,\u00a0<em>A. fruticosus<\/em>\u00a0auct. 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It appears in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.","observations":"There are 2 recognised subspecies: <strong>A. gombo <\/strong>subsp.<strong> gombo<\/strong>, with pods 4.5-6.5 cm long, known from Morocco and Western Algeria; and <strong>A. gombo <\/strong>subsp.<strong> gombo\u00ebformis<\/strong> (Pomel) Eug.Ott (<em>A. gomboeformis <\/em>Pomel), smaller in size and with smaller flowers and pods, pods 2.5-3 cm, with thick and spongy walls and shorter beak, from Eastern Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.\r\n\r\n<em>A. gombo<\/em> subsp. <em>pseudogombo<\/em> (Fernandez Casas) Romo, cited in Morocco, seems to be synonymous of <em>A. maurorum<\/em> Murb.","conservation":"Rare but widely distributed species, in principle it is not considered threatened. 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