Caragana#Section Frutescentes
{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Caragana sinica 3.JPG
| image_caption = Caragana sinica
| taxon = Caragana
| authority = Lam. (1785)
| type_species = Caragana arborescens
| type_species_authority = Lam.
| subdivision_ranks = Sections and species
| subdivision_ref = {{cite journal |vauthors=Zhang M, Fritsch PW, Cruz BC |year=2009 |title=Phylogeny of Caragana (Fabaceae) based on DNA sequence data from rbcL, trnS–trnG, and ITS. |journal=Mol Phylogenet Evol |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=547–59 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001 |pmid=19100848|bibcode=2009MolPE..50..547Z |url=http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/15551 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Zhang M, Fritsch PW |year=2010 |title=Evolutionary response of Caragana (Fabaceae) to Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau uplift and Asian interior aridification. |journal=Plant Syst Evol |volume=288 |issue=3–4 |pages=191–199 |doi=10.1007/s00606-010-0324-z|bibcode=2010PSyEv.288..191Z }}[http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&LegumeWeb&genus~Caragana ILDIS records for genus Caragana]
| subdivision = See text
| range_map = Caragana distribution.svg
| range_map_caption = Range of the genus Caragana
|synonyms =
- Aspalathus {{small|Amman ex Kuntze (1891), nom. illeg.}}
- Halimodendron {{small|Fisch. ex DC. (1825)}}
|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21935-1 Caragana Lam.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
}}
File:Flowering caragana (camel's tail) in the south of Buryatia, Russia.jpg
Caragana is a genus of about 80–100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.
They are shrubs or small trees growing {{convert|1|–|6|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod.
Caragana species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including dark dagger.
Sections and species
=Section ''Bracteolatae''=
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- Caragana ambigua Stocks
- Caragana bicolor Kom.
- Caragana brevispina Royle ex Benth.
- Caragana conferta Benth. ex Baker
- Caragana franchetiana Kom.
- Caragana gerardiana Royle ex Benth.
- Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
- Caragana sukiensis C.K.Schneid.
- Caragana tibetica (Maxim. ex C.K. Schneid.) Kom.
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=Section ''Caragana''=
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- Caragana arborescens Lam.
- Caragana boisii C.K.Schneid.
- Caragana bungei Ledeb.
- Caragana korshinskii Kom.
- Caragana microphylla Lam.
- Caragana pekinensis Kom.
- Caragana prainii C.K.Schneid.
- Caragana purdomii Rehder
- Caragana soongorica Grubov
- Caragana stipitata Kom.
- Caragana turkestanica Kom.
- Caragana zahlbruckneri C.K.Schneid.
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=Section ''Frutescentes''=
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- Caragana aurantiaca Koehne
- Caragana brevifolia Kom.
- Caragana chinghaiensis Y.X. Liou
- Caragana camilli-schneideri Kom.
- Caragana frutex (L.) K.Koch
- Caragana gobica Sanchir
- Caragana kirghisorum Pojark.
- Caragana laeta Kom.
- Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
- Caragana opulens Kom.
- Caragana polourensis Franch.
- Caragana pygmaea (L.) DC.
- Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
- Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehder
- Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
- Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
- Caragana ussuriensis (Regel) Pojark.
- Caragana versicolor Benth.
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=Unnamed section=
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- Caragana bongardiana (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Pojark.These five species form a well-resolved, unnamed phylogenetic clade that may receive a Linnaean name at some future point.
- Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou
- Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.
- Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
- Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.
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=Basal species=
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- Caragana acanthophylla Kom.These species form a grade that may collapse into one or more well-defined clades upon more extensive taxon sampling in molecular phylogenetic analysis.
- Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.
- Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.
- Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.
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=''Incertae sedis''=
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- Caragana afghanica Kitam.
- Caragana alaica Pojark.
- Caragana alaschanica Grubov
- Caragana alexeenkoi Kamelin
- Caragana alpina Y.X. Liou
- Caragana arcuata Y.X. Liou
- Caragana balchaschensis (Kom.) Pojark.
- Caragana beefensis S.N. Biswas
- Caragana brachypoda Pojark.
- Caragana buriatica Peschkova
- Caragana campanulata Vassilcz.
- Caragana cinerea (Kom.) N.S. Pavlova
- Caragana crassipina C. Marquand
- Caragana cuneato-alata Y.X. Liou
- Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
- Caragana densa Kom.
- Caragana erinacea Kom.
- Caragana fruticosa (Pall.) Besser
- Caragana grandiflora (M. Bieb.) DC.
- Caragana halodendron {{small|(Pall.) Dum.Cours.}}
- Caragana kansuensis Pojark.
- Caragana kozlowii Kom.
- Caragana leucospina Kom.
- Caragana leveillei Kom.
- Caragana limprichtii Harms
- Caragana litwinowii Kom.
- Caragana maimanensis Rech. f.
- Caragana manshurica (Kom.) Kom.
- Caragana polyacantha Royle
- Caragana × prestoniae R.J. Moore
- Caragana scythica (Kom.) Pojark.
- Caragana shensiensis C.W. Chang
- Caragana × sophorifolia Tausch
- Caragana spinifera Kom.
- Caragana turfanensis (Krasn.) Kom.
- Caragana ulicina Stocks
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Range maps
Caragana distribution.svg|Range of the genus Caragana
Caragana section Bracteolatae distribution.svg|Range of the section Bracteolatae
Caragana section Caragana distribution.svg|Range of the section Caragana
Caragana section Frutescentes distribution.svg|Range of the section Frutescentes
References
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External links
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- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=105589 Flora of Pakistan: Caragana]
- [http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?va=caragana Merriam-Webster Unabridged - Caragana entry]
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