Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Astragalus punae I.M.Johnst. |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Altitude | 3500-4500m |
Description | grey cinereous, leaflets 9-11 pairs, complicate, 4-7mm, broadly oblong, adaxially subglabrous, abaxially lanate, truncate, raceme 5-10-flowered, capitate, compact, sessile |
Size | 3-7cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | cushion |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Southern America
Southern South America (Argentina Northwest) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | FABACEAE
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