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Taxon:  Onobrychis transcaucasica Grossh.



Summary
Genus:
Onobrychis
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Hedysareae
Nomen number:
25734
Place of publication:
Zap. Naucno-Prikl. Otd. Tiflissk. Bot. Sada 6:140. 1929
Verified:
09/16/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
24 (10  active, 1  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Onobrychis antasiatica hort., nom. inval.
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Reference(s)
  1. Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
  2. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  3. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
  4. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001
  5. Hanelt, P. 1998. pers. comm.
  6. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  7. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  8. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  9. Roizin, M. B. 1959. The root nodules of leguminous plants of the Kola Peninsula [in Russian]. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 44:467-474.
  10. Yakovlev, G. P. et al. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. 1996
Common names
Transliterated Russian
esparcet zakavkazskij –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusArmenia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaTurkey  
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeUkraineKrym 
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateCaucasusArmenia  
2CultivatedEuropeEast EuropeUkraine  
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
  • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Ukraine [Krym]
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Ukraine
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforage Yakovlev, G. P. et al. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. 1996
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=25734. Accessed 18 July 2025.


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