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Onobrychis caput-galli

(Cockshead Sainfoin, Zacken Esparsette)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Cockshead Sainfoin, Hahnenkamm Esparsette, Zacken Esparsette

Common Names in Slovenian:

Petelinja Turshka Detelja

Description

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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Onobrychis

Annual or perennial , herbs or undershrubs. Leaf imparipinnate , leaflets entire ; stipules free or connate . Inflorescence an axillary pedunculate raceme . Bracts present, bracteoles present or absent. Calyx teeth unequal, linear or suhulate. Corolla pink, purple, yellow or white, often with dark veins. Wing shorter than the vexillum and the keel ; keel truncate, obtuse , equal to or longer than the vexillum. Stamens diadelphous , 9+1, anthers uniform . Ovary 1-2-ovuled. Fruit indehiscent, compressed , suborbicular , glabrous or pilose , lanate , with or without hooks, spines or teeth on the crest and disc; 1-2-seeded.

A genus with about 130 species, distributed in Europe, N.Africa, N.E. Tropical Africa and Asia. locally represented by 9 species."Onobrychis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Habit: Herb • Climbing: Not Climbing

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,952 meters (0 to 6,404 feet).Mean = 331.050 meters (1,086.122 feet), Standard Deviation = 568.890 based on 202 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Hedysarum caput-galli L.
  2. Onobrychis depressa C.Presl

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Adams B .R., 1993-1996

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Onobrychis

There are approximately 377 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

O. acaulis · O. aequidentata (Zacken Esparsette) · O. affinis · O. afghanica · O. afghanica afghanica · O. afghanica brachycalyx · O. afghanica codringtonii · O. africana · O. alatavica · O. alba · O. alba alba · O. alba calcarea · O. alba echinata · O. alba laconica · O. alba macedonica · O. alba mairei · O. alba tenoreana · O. alba var. echinata · O. alba var. striatula · O. albiflora · O. alectorocephale · O. alectorolopha · O. aliacmonia · O. aliacmonia peloponnesiaca · O. allionii · O. alpicola · O. altissima · O. alyassinicus · O. amoena · O. amoena amoena · O. amoena meshhedensis · O. andalanica · O. angustifolia · O. antasiatica · O. araxina · O. arenaria (Sand Esparsette) · O. arenaria arenaria · O. arenaria cana · O. arenaria lasiostachya · O. arenaria miniata · O. arenaria sibirica · O. arenaria taurerica · O. arenaria tommasinii (Sand Esparsette) · O. argaea · O. argentea hispanica · O. argyrea · O. armata · O. arnacantha · O. atropatana · O. atropatana var. grandiflora · O. aucheri · O. aucheri aucheri · O. aucheri psammophila · O. aucheri teheranica · O. aurea · O. baldshuanica · O. beata · O. melanotricha · O. bellevii · O. bergeriana · O. bertiscea · O. bicornis · O. biebersteinii · O. bithynica · O. bobrovii · O. bornmuelleri · O. bornmulleri · O. brachysemia · O. brnoensis · O. buhseana · O. bungei · O. buxbaumiana · O. buxbaumii · O. cadevallii · O. calcarea var. echinata · O. candidum · O. cappadocica · O. caput-galli (Cockshead Sainfoin) · O. caput-galli var. brevispina · O. caput-gallii · O. carduchorum · O. carpathica · O. chorassanica · O. cilicica · O. collina · O. comosa · O. conferta · O. conferta argentea · O. conferta conferta · O. conferta hispanica · O. cornuta · O. cornuta cornuta · O. cornuta leptacantha · O. cornuta var. alba · O. crinita · O. crista-galli · O. crista-galli var. trilophocarpa · O. crista-gallis · O. cristagalli · O. cyri

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 26, 2008:

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Last Revised: 2008-08-23