Caragana brevifolia Kom.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs to 2 m tall, glabrous. Bark dark grayish brown. Branchlets sometimes arched. Leaves digitate, 4-foliolate; peti­ole 3-8 mm on long branchlets, nearly absent on short branch­lets; leaflet blades lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, 2-8 × 1-4 mm, base cuneate, apex acute. Flowers solitary. Pedicel 5-8 mm, articulate basally to near middle. Calyx tube tubular-cam­panulate, 5-6 mm, glaucous. Corolla yellow, 1.4-1.6 cm; stan­dard broadly ovate, ca. 1.4 cm, claw ca. 4 mm; wings with claw ± as long as limb, auricle dentiform and small; keel with claw ± as long as limb, auricle dentiform. Ovary glabrous. Legume dark brown when mature, cylindric, 1-2.5(-3.5) cm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep. 2n = 16.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.0
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment soaking
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Caragana brevifolia world distribution map, present in China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483802-1
WFO ID wfo-0000198239
COL ID QZWZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Caragana brevifolia