Astragalus Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Khan, Amjad
name: Ahmad, Mushtaq
name: Zafar, Muhammad
name: Shah, Sayed Afzal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Astragalus

description: Pollen key to investigated species
1 Sub-prolate .........................................................................................................................................................................................7
+ Prolate................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
2 Perforate to reticulate, polar diameter 28.75 µm........................................................................................................ A. amherstianus
+ Trizonocolporate, P/E ratio1.36..........................................................................................................................................................3
3 Reticulate to microreticulate, equatorial diameter 21.66 µm ............................................................................................. A. auganus
+ Reticulate............................................................................................................................................................................................4
4 Scabrate, P/E ratio1.47………………………………………….……… A. brahuicus
+ Tricolporate, length of pore 6.54 µm..................................................................................................................................................5
5 Perforate, length of colpi 25.00 µm............................................................................................................................. A. chorizanthus
+ Perforate to granulate .........................................................................................................................................................................6
6 Granulate, mesocolpium 22.91 µm ................................................................................................................................ A. commixtus
7 Microreticulate to perforate, P/E ratio1.29........................................................................................................................... A. hostilis
+ Perforate to reticulate, polar diameter 32.58 µm................................................................................................................................8
8 Isopolar, mesocolpium 23.33 µm .................................................................................................................................. A. kuramensis
+ Trizonocolporate, width of colpi 3.75 µm..........................................................................................................................................9
9 + Reticulate to microreticulate, equatorial diameter 22.91 µm ..................................................................................... A. psilacanthus
+ Perforate, width of pore 10.41 µm ..................................................................................................................................................10
10 Scabrate, polar diameter 29.16 µm............................................................................................................................ A. purpurascens
+ Trizonocolporate, mesocolpium 22.50 µm.......................................................................................................................................11
11 Granulate, equatorial diameter 25.41 µm ............................................................................................................................ A. stocksii
description: Published as part of Khan, Amjad, Ahmad, Mushtaq, Zafar, Muhammad & Shah, Sayed Afzal, 2022, Systematic significance of pollen morphology in rare endemic taxa of Astragalus L. (Fabaceae), pp. 267-290 in Phytotaxa 561 (3) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.561.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7069933