ECOLOGY 2018 International Symposium, Kastamonu, Türkiye, 19 Haziran 2018, (Özet Bildiri)
Astragalus is represented in 474 taxa of 64 sections in our country. 163 taxa are
endemics and endemism rate is 34%. 273 of them are Irano-Turanian, 45 taxa are Mediterranean,
11 taxa are Euro-Siberian phytogeographic elements; others are widespread or these are whose
regions cannot be determined. Life forms (annual, biennial, perennial); herbaceous, woody at base,
woody, shrub; caulescent –scapose, peduncles are not; leaves ±simple (basal leaves), pariimparipinnat, rachis spiny or not, numbers of leaflets pairs; hairs the simple, bifurcate or furcate,
adpressed or not, black-and-white; stipules herbaceous or glumaceous; with or without bractsbrakteole and structure; calyx inflated or not; standard hairy or not, stenonychioid or platonychioid
and coloration of the corollas; ovary stipitate or sessile, structure of fruits are used as a separator
characters.