Caragana

Caragana is a genus of about 80–100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.

Caragana
Caragana sinica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.
Sections and species[1][2][3]

See text

Range of the genus Caragana
Synonyms[4]
  • Aspalathus Amman ex Kuntze (1891), nom. illeg.
  • Halimodendron Fisch. ex DC. (1825)
Flowering caragana (camel's tail) in the south of Buryatia, Russia

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.

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.[5]
  • Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou[5]
  • Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.[5]
  • Caragana roborovskyi Kom.[5]
  • Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.[5]

Basal species

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 (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
  • Range of the genus Caragana
    Range of the genus Caragana
  • Range of the section Bracteolatae
    Range of the section Bracteolatae
  • Range of the section Caragana
    Range of the section Caragana
  • Range of the section Frutescentes
    Range of the section Frutescentes

References
  1. 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001. PMID 19100848.
  2. 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. doi:10.1007/s00606-010-0324-z.
  3. ILDIS records for genus Caragana
  4. Caragana Lam. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. These five species form a well-resolved, unnamed phylogenetic clade that may receive a Linnaean name at some future point.
  6. 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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