Major General James G. Blunt

Flowering caragana (camel's tail) in the south of Buryatia, Russia

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 1–6 m (3.3–19.7 ft) 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

Section Caragana

Section Frutescentes

Unnamed section

Basal species

Incertae sedis

Range maps

  • Range of the genus Caragana
    Range of the genus Caragana
  • Range of the section Bracteolatae
    Range of the section Bracteolatae
  • Range of the section Caragana
    Range of the section Caragana
  • Range of the section Frutescentes
    Range of the section Frutescentes

References

  1. ^ Zhang M, Fritsch PW, Cruz BC (2009). "Phylogeny of Caragana (Fabaceae) based on DNA sequence data from rbcL, trnS–trnG, and ITS". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 50 (3): 547–59. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001. PMID 19100848.
  2. ^ Zhang M, Fritsch PW (2010). "Evolutionary response of Caragana (Fabaceae) to Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau uplift and Asian interior aridification". Plant Syst Evol. 288 (3–4): 191–199. doi:10.1007/s00606-010-0324-z.
  3. ^ ILDIS records for genus Caragana
  4. ^ Caragana Lam. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e These five species form a well-resolved, unnamed phylogenetic clade that may receive a Linnaean name at some future point.
  6. ^ a b c d These species form a grade that may collapse into one or more well-defined clades upon more extensive taxon sampling in molecular phylogenetic analysis.

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caragana