Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis poncinsii Franch. sect. Xerobia |
Bibliography | Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 2: 343 (1896) |
Native Range | Central Asia to Afghanistan and w. & n. China |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 2400-4500m |
Description | leaves 2-5cm, leaflets 7-11, oblong, 3-7mm, densely white hirsute, flowers 2-3, ca. 25mm, in raceme, calyx lanate, pod ovoid, ventricose, shortly lanate |
Size | 2-5cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
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 |
Synonyms | Astragalus introflexa (Freyn) Freyn Oxytropis introflexa Freyn Oxytropis poncinsii f. albiflora M.M.Gao & P.Yan Spiesia introflexa (Freyn) Kuntze |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KGZ Kirgizistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHN China North-Central, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) |