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Onobrychis Mill.

Sainfoin (en), Esparcette (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Herbs [or shrublets]. Stipules dry membranous, connate or rarely distinct. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflet blades opposite, margin entire. Racemes axillary, with a long peduncle, with bracts and bracteoles. Calyx campanulate. Corolla purple, pinkish purple, or pale yellow. Stamens diadelphous (9+1); anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with 1 or 2 ovules; style filiform; stigma capitate. Legume usu­ally with 1 article, subglobose, inflated, indehiscent, with elevated veins, usually prickly.
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Cal campanulate, nearly regular, the teeth slender; standard obcordate to obovate, about equaling the keel and much longer than the wings; stamens diadelphous, the upper stamen united with the others only near the middle; fr indehiscent, compressed, ovate to subrotund, with a distinct, usually toothed or spiny margin; 1–2-seeded; herbs with scarious stipules, odd-pinnate lvs with numerous lfls, and long-peduncled, axillary narrow racemes. 100+, Eur. and Medit. to c. Asia.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Distribution

Onobrychis world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30311989-2
WFO ID wfo-4000026877
COL ID 68CD
BDTFX ID 86890
INPN ID 195449
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Synonyms

Onobrychis Echinolobium Eriocarpaea Xanthobrychis

Lower taxons

Onobrychis altissima Onobrychis bungei Onobrychis dealbata Onobrychis depauperata Onobrychis echidna Onobrychis elymaitica Onobrychis mazanderanica Onobrychis melanotricha Onobrychis mermuelleri Onobrychis michauxii Onobrychis microptera Onobrychis nummularia Onobrychis psoraleifolia Onobrychis ptychophylla Onobrychis rechingerorum Onobrychis samanganica Onobrychis sauzakensis Onobrychis schahuensis Onobrychis shahpurensis Onobrychis sintenisii Onobrychis sojakii Onobrychis susiana Onobrychis talagonica Onobrychis tavernieraefolia Onobrychis saravschanica Onobrychis bicornis Onobrychis hypargyrea Onobrychis wettsteinii Onobrychis verae Onobrychis amoena Onobrychis galegifolia Onobrychis transcaspica Onobrychis aequidentata (sm.) d'urv. Onobrychis alba Onobrychis crista-galli Onobrychis viciifolia Onobrychis alatavica Onobrychis darwasica Onobrychis dielsii Onobrychis majorovii Onobrychis nemecii Onobrychis gracilis Onobrychis montana Onobrychis novopokrovskii Onobrychis oxyodonta Onobrychis pallasii Onobrychis pyrenaica Onobrychis radiata Onobrychis reuteri Onobrychis sphaciotica Onobrychis inermis Onobrychis stenorhiza Onobrychis pulchella Onobrychis kurdica Onobrychis merxmuelleri Onobrychis marashensis Onobrychis germanicopolitana Onobrychis halysensis Onobrychis huetiana Onobrychis hemicycla Onobrychis quadrijuga Onobrychis mutensis Onobrychis sulphurea Onobrychis stenostachya Onobrychis sivasica Onobrychis podperae Onobrychis pisidica Onobrychis paucijuga Onobrychis peloponnesiaca Onobrychis densijuga Onobrychis aurea Onobrychis venosa Onobrychis versurarum Onobrychis acaulis Onobrychis afghanica Onobrychis alyassinicus Onobrychis andalanica Onobrychis arnacantha Onobrychis atropatana Onobrychis eubrychidea Onobrychis freitagii Onobrychis gaubae Onobrychis haussknechtii Onobrychis heterophylla Onobrychis iranshahrii Onobrychis kermanensis Onobrychis kotschyana Onobrychis longipes Onobrychis lunata Onobrychis luristanica Onobrychis macrorhiza Onobrychis oxyptera Onobrychis persica Onobrychis plantago Onobrychis poikilantha Onobrychis transcaucasica Onobrychis schugnanica Onobrychis baldzuanica Onobrychis aliacmonia Onobrychis argentea Onobrychis ptolemaica Onobrychis stewartii Onobrychis baldshuanica Onobrychis buhseana Onobrychis daghestanica Onobrychis gontscharowii Onobrychis grossheimii Onobrychis hajastana Onobrychis hamata Onobrychis hohenackeriana Onobrychis kluchorica Onobrychis komarovii Onobrychis nikitinii Onobrychis oxytropoides Onobrychis schuschajensis Onobrychis tesquicola Onobrychis tournefortii Onobrychis vaginalis Onobrychis caput-galli Onobrychis cyri Onobrychis degenii Onobrychis ebenoides Onobrychis argyrea Onobrychis occulta Onobrychis cilicica Onobrychis carduchorum Onobrychis elata Onobrychis argaea Onobrychis beata Onobrychis meschetica Onobrychis biebersteinii Onobrychis cadevallii Onobrychis kabylica Onobrychis iberica Onobrychis chorassanica Onobrychis cornuta Onobrychis grandis Onobrychis gypsicola Onobrychis heliocarpa Onobrychis oshnaviyehensis Onobrychis kuchanensis Onobrychis dushanbensis Onobrychis aragatzi Onobrychis micrantha Onobrychis nitida Onobrychis nummularia Onobrychis psoraleaefolia Onobrychis richardii Onobrychis wachteri Onobrychis meshhedensis Onobrychis bornmuelleri Onobrychis degeni Onobrychis verae Onobrychis vanensis Onobrychis squarrosa Onobrychis alamutensis Onobrychis bojnurdensis Onobrychis mehmetchiquii Onobrychis farimanensis Onobrychis garinensis Onobrychis maassoumii Onobrychis marandensis Onobrychis patula Onobrychis alborzensis Onobrychis chaldoranensis Onobrychis ruprechtii Onobrychis araxina Onobrychis sosnowskyi Onobrychis buhseana Onobrychis tavernierifolia Onobrychis albiflora Onobrychis cigdemiae Onobrychis assadii Onobrychis mozaffarianii Onobrychis iranensis Onobrychis bakuensis Onobrychis avajensis Onobrychis neychalanensis Onobrychis petraea Onobrychis cappadocica Onobrychis pindicola Onobrychis aucheri Onobrychis laxiflora Onobrychis major Onobrychis megataphros Onobrychis spinosissima Onobrychis splendida Onobrychis subacaulis Onobrychis subnitens Onobrychis szovitsii Onobrychis scrobiculata Onobrychis fallax Onobrychis sirdjanicus Onobrychis lahidjanicus Onobrychis bobrovii Onobrychis vassilczenkoi Onobrychis angustifolia Onobrychis kemulariae Onobrychis mucronifolia Onobrychis citrina Onobrychis jailae Onobrychis megalobotrys Onobrychis megaloptera Onobrychis lasistanica Onobrychis conferta Onobrychis saxatilis Onobrychis supina Onobrychis humilis Onobrychis arenaria
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