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A synopsis of genus Astragalus L. sect. Stereothrix Bunge Fabaceae

Year 2013, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 114 - 133, 15.04.2013

Massoud Ranjbar Bahareh Mahmoudıan Ernst Vıtek

Abstract

A synopsis of Astragalus sect. Stereothrix Bunge Fabaceae is presented and the relationships between the species are discussed within the section. A description for the section and a key to its 15 species in Iran are given. Also two ignored species belonging to the section in Flora Iranica, Astragalus badelehensis Maassoumi & Taheri and A. mahneshanensis Maassoumi & Moussavi, are reviewed again here. A. savanatensis and A. andabilensis collected from Fars and Ardebil Provinces of Iran, respectively are described as new species, illustrated are compared with their nearest relatives. A. savanatensis is a rare species in the subalpine areas of Estahban and closely related to A. ledinghamii Barneby occurs in the same area. The habit, shape of calyx and petals are very similar in both species, but A. savanatensis differs sufficiently from its relative by having peachy flower vs. yellowish white , plant length 24.5 -34 cm vs. 7 -- 20 cm , stem length up to 20 cm vs. 1 -- 3 cm , leaflet in 4–6 vs. 2 -- 4 pairs, leaflet size 5 -- 45 × 1 -3 mm vs. 7 -- 25 × 1.3 -- 2 mm , keel length 8 -- 10 mm vs. 6.8 -- 7.6 mm and peduncle length 9.3 -- 18.5 cm vs. 2 -6 cm . A. andabilensis is a rare species occurs in the subalpine areas of Khalkhal and closely related to A. capito Boiss. & Hohen. occurs in Tehran province. The habit, shape of calyx and petals are very similar in both species, but A. andabilensis differs sufficiently from its relative by plant length 11.5 -- 21.5 cm vs. 4 -- 9 cm , white stem hairs toward the nodes increasingly black vs. all white stem hairs , appressed hairs on the upper sides of leaflets vs. spreading hairs , white peduncle hairs toward the raceme increasingly black vs. all white hairs and peduncle length 5 -- 14.5 cm vs. 0.5 -- 2 cm . In addition, meiotic chromosome number and behavior were studied in the new species. This report is the first cytogenetic analysis of these taxa. Both species are diploid plants and possess 2n = 2x = 16 chromosome numbers, consistent with the proposed base number of x = 8. The general meiotic behavior of the species was regular, with bivalent pairing and normal chromosome segregation at meiosis. However, some meiotic abnormalities in A. savanatensis include varied degrees of ring and fragmented chromosomes, precocious migration in metaphase I and II, bridges and laggards in anaphase I and II, micronuclei in telophase I, binucleate in telophase I and II and tripolar cells in telophase II. In A. andabilensis, fragmented chromosomes in metaphase I and II were observed. Asynchronism in meiosis was seen in both species

Keywords

Astagalus savanatensis A. andabilensis Iran Meiotic behavior Astragalus Sect. Stereothrix

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  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Enayati Akmal, A. 2010c. Meiotic behavior and chromosome number of 5 species of the Astragalus sect. Megalocystis Bunge (Fabaceae) in Iran. Cytologia. 75. 49 -- 58.
  • Ranjbar, M., Assadi, A., Karamian, R. 2011a. Systematic study of Astragalus chrysostachys Boiss. (Fabaceae) in Iran, with the description of a new species. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien B. 112. 221 -- 237.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Nouri, S. 2011b. Diploid-tetraploid mixoploidy in an interesting new species of Astragalus sect. Incani DC. (Fabaceae) from Iran. Annales Botanici Fennici. 48. 289 -- 303.
  • Ranjbar, M., Negaresh, K., Karamian, R. 2012. Centaurea regia subsp. javanroudense, a new subspecies of Centaurea sect. Cynaroides (Asteraceae), from flora of Iran. Biological Diversity and Conservation 5(1): 5 -- 10.
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  • Sheidai, M., Maassoumi, A. A., Pakravan, M. 1996. Karyotypes of some Astragalus taxa (sect. Xiphidium BGE) from Iran. The nucleus. 39. 111 -- 113.
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  • Sheidai, M., Sotodeh, M., Akbarei, B. 2007. Cytogenetic variability in several oil seed rape cultivars. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 10 (4).
  • Utsunomiya, K. S., Bione, N. C. P., Pagliarini, M. S. 2002. How many different kinds of meiotic abnormalities could be found in a unique endogamous maize plant?. Cytologia. 67. 169 -- 176.
  • Zarre, SH., Podlech, D., Taeb, F. 2005. New species of the genus Astragalus L. (Fabaceae), mainly from the “Flora Iranica” area. Feddes Repertorium. 116 (1-2). 54 -- 79.

Year 2013, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 114 - 133, 15.04.2013

Massoud Ranjbar Bahareh Mahmoudıan Ernst Vıtek

Abstract

References

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  • Aryavand, A. 1983. IOPB Chromosome Number Reports LXXX. Taxon. 32. 504 -- 511.
  • Aytaç, Z. 1997. The Revision of the Section Dasyphyllium Bunge of The Genus Astragalus L. of Turkey Tr. Jr: Botany,Vol. 21, No: l, 31–5
  • Aytaç, Z., Ekici, M., Akan, H. 2012, Astragalus L. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, T. 2012. (edlr.), Türkiya Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkileri). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul.
  • Bader, A., Hamoud, M., El-Rabey, H. 1996. Chromosomal studies in the Egyptian flora V. Chromosomal relationships in the genus Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) and their taxonomic inferences. Cytologia. 61. 105. -- 111.
  • Bader, A., Sherif, M. S. 2007. Karyotype analysis and systematic relationships in the Egyptian Astragalus L. (Fabaceae). International Journal of Botany. 3. 147 -- 159.
  • Barneby, R. C. 1974. Dragma hippomanicum. I. Brittonia. 26. 109 -- 114.
  • Bunge, A. 1868-1869. Generis Astragali species Gerontogeae. Pars prior, Claves Diagnosticae. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St Pétersbourg ser. 7, 11. 1 -- 140; Pars altera, Specierum enumeration. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St Pétersbourg ser. 7, 15. 1 -- 245.
  • Chamberlain, D. F., Matthews, V. A. 1969. Astragalus L. In: Davis, P. H. (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the Aegean Islands. Volume III, 49 -- 254. Edinburgh Univ. Press, Edinburgh.
  • Dopchiz, L., Comez, S., Poggio, L. 1995. Karyotype and nuclear DNA content of six species of Astragalus (Leguminosae). Cytologia. 60. 329 -- 335.
  • Ekici, M., Yüzbaşıoğlu, D. & Aytaç, Z. 2005. Morphology, Pollen, seed structure and karyological study on Astragalus ovalis Boiss. & Balansa (Sect. Ammodendron) in Turkey. International Journal Botany. 1 (1): 74 -- 78
  • Ghahremani-nejad, F., Behçhet, L. 2003. Astragalus subhanensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Turkey. Annales Botanici Fennici. 40. 209 -- 211.
  • IUCN. 2001. IUCN red list categories and criteria, ver. 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission.
  • Komarov, V.L. (ed.). 1946. Flora URSS, Volume XII, Moskva, Leningrad.
  • Ledingham, G. F. 1957. Chromosome numbers of some Saskatchewan Leguminosae with particular reference to Astragalus and Oxytropis. Canadian Journal of Botany. 35. 657-666.
  • Ledingham G. F. 1960. Chromosome numbers in Astragalus and Oxytropis. Canadian journal of genetics and cytology. 2. 119 -- 128.
  • Ledingham, G. F., Rever, B. M. 1963. Chromosome numbers of some Southwest Asian species of Astragalus and Oxytropis (Leguminosae). Canadian journal of genetics and cytology. 5(1). 18 -- 32.
  • Liston, A. 1990. Taxonomic notes on Astragalus section Leptocarpi subsection Californici (Fabaceae). Brittonia. 42. 100 -- 104.
  • Lock, J. M., Simpson, K. 1991. Legumes of West Asia, a check-list. Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew.
  • Maassoumi, A. A. 1987. Notes on the genus Astragalus in Iran I, cytotaxonomic studies on some species. Irannian Journal of Botany. 3. 117 -- 128.
  • Maassoumi, A. A. R., Podlech, D. 1988. Eleven new species and a new section from the Genus Astragalus (Leguminosae) in Iran. Irannian Journal of Botany. 4. 71 -- 90.
  • Maassoumi, A. A. 1989. Notes on the genus Astragalus in Iran IV, cytotaxonomic studies on some species. Irannian Journal of Botany. 4. 153 -- 163.
  • Maassoumi, A. A. 1998. Old World check-list of Astragalus. Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran.
  • Maassoumi, A. A. 2005. Some interesting new species of the genus Astragalus from Iran. Irannian Journal of Botany. 11(1). 101 -- 109.
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press.
  • Pretel Martinez, A. 1974. Reports. In: Löve, Á. (ed.), IOPB chromosome number reports XLVI. Taxon. 23(5 -- 6). 804 -- 815.
  • Nirmala, A. A., Rao, P. N. 1996. Genetics of chromosome numerical mosaism in higher plants. The nucleus. 39. 151 -- 175.
  • Pagliarini, M. S. 1990. Meiotic behavior and pollen fertility in Aptenia cordifolia (Aizoaceae). Caryologia. 43. 157 -- 162.
  • Pagliarini, M. S. 2000. Meiotic behavior of economically important plant species: the relationship between fertility and male sterility. Genetics and Molecular Biology. 23. 997 -- 1002.
  • Parsa, A. 1966. Flora of Iran, volume IX. 25. Tehran-Iran.
  • Podlech, D., Sytin, A. 1996. Typification of Russian and some other species of Astragalus I. Sendtnera. 3. 149 -- 176.
  • Podlech, D. 1999. New Astragalus and Oxytropis from North Africa and Asia, including some new combinations and remarks on some species. Sendtnera. 6. 135 -- 174.
  • Podlech, D., Maassoumi, A. A. 2003. New species of Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) from Iran, mainly of sects. Incani and Malacothrix. Feddes Repertorium. 114 (5 - 6). 320 -- 349.
  • Podlech, D. 2008. Thesaurus Astragalorum: Index of all taxa within the genus Astragalus L. and other genera but belonging to the genus Astragalus. Taxa of the Old World and related taxa of the New World. – http://www.botanik.biologie. uni-muenchen.de/botsyst/theslit.html.
  • Podlech, D. 2009. Astragalus sect. Stereothrix. In: Rechinger KH, ed. Flora Iranica 178. 49 -- 58.
  • Polhill, R. M. 1981. Galegeae. In: Polhill R.M. & Raven P.H., (eds.). Advances in legume systematics. Royal Bot. Gard, pp 367 -- 370.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R. 2002. Astragalus sect. Astragalus (Fabaceae) in Iran, complementary notes with a key to the species. Nordic Journal of Botany. 22. 177 -- 181.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R. 2003. Some remarks on the genus Astragalus sect. Incani DC. in Iran. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 143(4). 443 -- 447.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Hadadi, A. 2009. Biosystematic study of Onobrychis vicifolia Scop. and Onobrychis altissima Grossh. (Fabaceae) in Iran. Irannian Journal of Botany. 15. 85 -- 95.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Afsari, s. 2010a. Meiotic chromosome number and behaviour of Onobrychis avajensis (Fabaceae): a new species from western Iran. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 143. 170 -- 175.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Hadadi, A. 2010b. Cytosyatematics of three Onobrychis species (Fabaceae) in Iran. Caryologia. 63. 237 -- 249.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Enayati Akmal, A. 2010c. Meiotic behavior and chromosome number of 5 species of the Astragalus sect. Megalocystis Bunge (Fabaceae) in Iran. Cytologia. 75. 49 -- 58.
  • Ranjbar, M., Assadi, A., Karamian, R. 2011a. Systematic study of Astragalus chrysostachys Boiss. (Fabaceae) in Iran, with the description of a new species. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien B. 112. 221 -- 237.
  • Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Nouri, S. 2011b. Diploid-tetraploid mixoploidy in an interesting new species of Astragalus sect. Incani DC. (Fabaceae) from Iran. Annales Botanici Fennici. 48. 289 -- 303.
  • Ranjbar, M., Negaresh, K., Karamian, R. 2012. Centaurea regia subsp. javanroudense, a new subspecies of Centaurea sect. Cynaroides (Asteraceae), from flora of Iran. Biological Diversity and Conservation 5(1): 5 -- 10.
  • Rechinger, K.H., Dulfer, H., Patzak, A. 1961. Sirjaevii fragmenta astragologica XIV. Astragalus Sect. Stereothrix. - Sitzungsber. Österr. Akad. Wiss., Math.-nat. Kl., Abt. I,. 170. 29 -- 34.
  • Sheidai, M., Maassoumi, A. A., Pakravan, M. 1996. Karyotypes of some Astragalus taxa (sect. Xiphidium BGE) from Iran. The nucleus. 39. 111 -- 113.
  • Sheidai, M., Yazdanbakhsh, M., Assadi, M., Moussavi, M. 2000. Cytology and morphometric study of Alhagi (Leguminosae) species in Iran. Nordic Journal of Botany. 21. 83 -- 91.
  • Sheidai, M., Sotodeh, M., Akbarei, B. 2007. Cytogenetic variability in several oil seed rape cultivars. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 10 (4).
  • Utsunomiya, K. S., Bione, N. C. P., Pagliarini, M. S. 2002. How many different kinds of meiotic abnormalities could be found in a unique endogamous maize plant?. Cytologia. 67. 169 -- 176.
  • Zarre, SH., Podlech, D., Taeb, F. 2005. New species of the genus Astragalus L. (Fabaceae), mainly from the “Flora Iranica” area. Feddes Repertorium. 116 (1-2). 54 -- 79.
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