Caragana is a genus of about 80–100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.
| Caragana | |
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| Caragana sinica | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.
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| Sections and species[1][2][3] | |
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| Range of the genus Caragana | |
| Synonyms[4] | |
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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.
The Kazakh city of Karaganda is also named after this plant
Sections and species
editSection Bracteolatae
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Caragana acanthophylla Kom.[6]
- Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.[6]
- Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.[6]
- Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.[6]
Incertae sedis
edit- 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
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Range of the genus Caragana -
Range of the section Bracteolatae -
Range of the section Caragana -
Range of the section Frutescentes
References
edit- ^ 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. Bibcode:2009MolPE..50..547Z. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001. PMID 19100848.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2010PSyEv.288..191Z. doi:10.1007/s00606-010-0324-z.
- ^ ILDIS records for genus Caragana
- ^ Caragana Lam. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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