Astragalus
lentiginosus

var. nigricalycis Jones 1895

(With black-hairy calyx.)

Holotype: Eastwood (CAS, photo at POM) March 24, 1893.

Isotype: POM.

Bakersfield, Kern Co., CA.

Lat: 35.373033 Long: -119.01375

(Inferred from placename, approximate.)

Barneby (1964: 951) reports the holotype not found at CAS, probably lost in the fire of 1906.

 

Neotype: Eastwood (POM) March 8, 1893.

San Emigdio, Kern Co., CA.

Lat: 34.99358333 Long: -119.184

(Inferred from placename, approximate.)

 

Synonymy (chronological with precedence):

Astragalus lentiginosus var nigricalycis Jones. Jones, M.E. 1895. Contributions to Western Botany No. 7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 5: 674.

Cystium nigricalyce (Jones) Rydb. Rydberg, P.A. 1929. Astragalanae in North American Flora. New York Botanical Garden 24: 408.

Astragalus nigricalycis (Jones) Abrams. Abrams, L. 1944. An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon and California. Stanford University Press, California: 598, fig. 2872.

 



Recognized Names
This list represents an amalgamation of Barneby’s most recent treatments (1964 & 1989) as well as the taxa described since these works.


A. l. var. albifolius Jones 1923 A. l. var. micans Barneby 1956
A. l. var. ambiguus Barneby 1964 A. l. var. mokiacensis (Gray) Jones 1923
A. l. var. antonius Barneby 1945 A. l. var. nigricalycis Jones 1895
A. l. var. australis Barneby 1945 A. l. var. oropedii Barneby 1945
A. l. var. borreganus Jones 1898 A. l. var. palans (Jones) Jones 1898
A. l. var. chartaceus Jones 1895 A. l. var. piscinensis Barneby 1977
A. l. var. coachellae Barneby 1964 A. l. var. pohlii Welsh & Barneby 1981
A. l. var. diphysus (Gray 1849) Jones 1895 A. l.  var. salinus (Howell 1893) Barneby 1945
A. l. var. floribundus Gray 1865 A. l. var. scorpionis Jones 1923
A. l. var. fremontii (Gray) Wats. 1871 A. l. var. semotus Jeps. 1936
A. l. var. higginsii Welsh 1981 A. l. var. sesquimetralis (Rydb. 1929) Barneby 1945
A. l. var. idriensis Jones 1902 A. l. var. sierrae Jones 1923
A. l. var. ineptus (Gray 1864) Jones 1923 A. l. var. stramineus (Rydb. 1929) Barneby 1945
A. l. var. kennedyi (Rydb.) Barneby 1945 A. l. var. trumbullensis Welsh & Atwood 2001
A. l. var. kernensis (Jeps. 1925) Barneby 1945 A. l. var. variabilis Barneby 1945
A. l. var. latus (Jones 1893) Jones 1923 A. l. var. vitreus Barneby 1945
A. l. var. lentiginosus

A. l. var. wilsonii (Greene) Barneby 1945

A. l. var. maricopae Barneby 1945 A. l. var. yuccanus Jones 1898



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