ECOLOGY 2018 International Symposium, Kastamonu, Türkiye, 19 Haziran 2018
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.