Caragana

Short description: Genus of legumes

Caragana

Caragana sinica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Fabales
Family:  | Fabaceae
Subfamily:  | Faboideae
Tribe:  | Hedysareae
Genus:  | Caragana
Lam. (1785)
Type species
Caragana arborescens

Lam.

Sections and species[1][2][3]

See text

Range of the genus Caragana
Synonyms[4]

* Aspalathus Amman ex Kuntze (1891), nom. illeg.
* Halimodendron Fisch. ex DC. (1825)

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.

## Contents

* 1 Sections and species
* 1.1 Section Bracteolatae
* 1.2 Section Caragana
* 1.3 Section Frutescentes
* 1.4 Unnamed section
* 1.5 Basal species
* 1.6 Incertae sedis
* 2 Range maps
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Sections and species

### Section Bracteolatae

* 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.

### Section Caragana

* 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.

### Section Frutescentes

* 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.

### Unnamed section

* Caragana bongardiana (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Pojark.[5]
* Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou[5]
* Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.[5]
* Caragana roborovskyi Kom.[5]
* Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.[5]

### Basal species

* Caragana acanthophylla Kom.[6]
* Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.[6]
* Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.[6]
* Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.[6]

### Incertae sedis

* 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 (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

## Range maps

* Range of the genus Caragana

* Range of the section Bracteolatae

* Range of the section Caragana

* Range of the section Frutescentes

## References

1. ↑ "Phylogeny of Caragana (Fabaceae) based on DNA sequence data from rbcL, trnS–trnG, and ITS.". Mol Phylogenet Evol 50 (3): 547–59. 2009. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001. PMID 19100848. http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/15551.
2. ↑ "Evolutionary response of Caragana (Fabaceae) to Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau uplift and Asian interior aridification.". Plant Syst Evol 288 (3–4): 191–199. 2010. 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 These five species form a well-resolved, unnamed phylogenetic clade that may receive a Linnaean name at some future point.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 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

* Flora of Pakistan: Caragana
* Merriam-Webster Unabridged - Caragana entry

Wikidata ☰ Q849443 entry

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