Caragana


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 tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow 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''

  • 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 Poir.
  • Caragana sukiensis C.K.Schneid.
  • Caragana tibetica 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 K.Koch
  • Caragana gobica Sanchir
  • Caragana kirghisorum Pojark.
  • Caragana laeta Kom.
  • Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
  • Caragana opulens Kom.
  • Caragana polourensis Franch.
  • Caragana pygmaea DC.
  • Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
  • Caragana sinica Rehder
  • Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
  • Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
  • Caragana ussuriensis Pojark.
  • Caragana versicolor Benth.

    Unnamed section

  • Caragana bongardiana Pojark.
  • Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou
  • Caragana pleiophylla Pojark.
  • Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
  • Caragana tragacanthoides Poir.

    Basal species

  • Caragana acanthophylla Kom.
  • Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.
  • Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.
  • Caragana spinosa Vahl ex Hornem.

    ''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 Pojark.
  • Caragana beefensis S.N. Biswas
  • Caragana brachypoda Pojark.
  • Caragana buriatica Peschkova
  • Caragana campanulata Vassilcz.
  • Caragana cinerea N.S. Pavlova
  • Caragana crassipina C. Marquand
  • Caragana cuneato-alata Y.X. Liou
  • Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
  • Caragana densa Kom.
  • Caragana erinacea Kom.
  • Caragana fruticosa Besser
  • Caragana grandiflora DC.
  • Caragana halodendron
  • 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.
  • Caragana polyacantha Royle
  • Caragana × prestoniae R.J. Moore
  • Caragana scythica Pojark.
  • Caragana shensiensis C.W. Chang
  • Caragana × sophorifolia Tausch
  • Caragana spinifera Kom.
  • Caragana turfanensis Kom.
  • Caragana ulicina Stocks

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