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 (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.
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.These five species form a well-resolved, unnamed phylogenetic clade that may receive a Linnaean name at some future point. Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark. Caragana roborovskyi Kom. Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.
Basal species
Caragana acanthophylla Kom.These species form a grade that may collapse into one or more well-defined clades upon more extensive taxon sampling in molecular phylogenetic analysis. Caragana dasyphylla Pojark. Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom. Caragana spinosa (L.) 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 (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
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
References
External links
Flora of Pakistan: Caragana Merriam-Webster Unabridged - Caragana entry