Onobrychis sulphurea
Onobrychis sulphurea
Doğu korungası
Perennial with procumbent or ascending stems, 30-60 cm. Leaves long petiolate, with 7-9 pairs of oblong-elliptic leaflets, c. 10 x 3 mm, adpressed pilose below, ± glabrous above; stipules white, connate. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Racemes many-flowered, compact, ovate-oblong or ovate, little elongating after anthesis. Calyx 7-9.5 mm with teeth 1.5-2 x length of tube, glabrous or spreading pilose. Corolla creamy white with or without darker veins; standard 8-12 mm; wings 4-6.5 mm; keel 9-11 mm. Fruit c. 8x6 mm with short adpressed or spreading hairs. Fl. 4-6.
With currently available material, three varieties can be recognised.
1. Flowers ± uniformly cream-coloured; wings 5.5-6.5 mm
2. Calyx glabrous or with a few hairs; fruit adpressed-pilose var. pallida
2. Calyx spreading pilose; fruit spreading-pilose var. sulphurea
1. Flowers cream with pink veins; wings 4-4.5 mm var. vanensis
With currently available material, three varieties can be recognised.
1. Flowers ± uniformly cream-coloured; wings 5.5-6.5 mm
2. Calyx glabrous or with a few hairs; fruit adpressed-pilose var. pallida
2. Calyx spreading pilose; fruit spreading-pilose var. sulphurea
1. Flowers cream with pink veins; wings 4-4.5 mm var. vanensis
