Astragalus physocalyx Fisch. (1837:74)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Tragacantha physocalyx (Fisch.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 947 (1891); Astragalus ampullifer Griseb. in Spic. Fl. Rumel. 1: 58 (1843); Astragalus friwaldskianus Boiss. in Diagn. Pl. Orient. 2: 73 (1843); Astragalus hyrcanus var. lehmannianus Bunge in Arbeiten Naturf. Vereins Riga 1: 235 (1847); Astragalus stereocalyx Bornm. in Mitth. Thüring. Bot. Vereins, n.f., 23: 15 (1908); Astragalus villosidentatus Podlech in Bull. Soc. Échange Pl. Vasc. Eur. Occid. Bassin Médit. 27: 94 (1998)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1961 (Lucas & Synge, 1978:265)
Since Rediscovered (fide Humhreys et al., 2019)
Distribution
Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey & Yugoslavia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Bazos, I. and Petrova, A. (2011). Astragalus physocalyx (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T165176A5986499. Accessed on 30 January 2024.
Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. and Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Berlin: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. [Englera 31].
Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 265-266]
Petrova, A. and Vladimirov, V. (eds). (2009). Red List of Bulgarian Vascular Plants. Phytologia Balcanica 15(1): 63-94.
Podlech, D. (2008). The genus Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) in Europe with exclusion of the former Soviet Union. Feddes Repertorium 119(5-6): 310-387. doi:10.1002/fedr.200811171
Podlech, D. and Zarre, S. (2013). A taxonomic revision of the genus Astragalus L. (Leguminosae) in the Old World 1: 1-822. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 3 March 2025]
Stanev, S. (1970). On the history of Bulgarian relict endemics. 1. Astragalus physocalyx Fisch . Izv. Prir. Muz. Plovdiv 1: 31-38.
Stanev, S. (1975). Zvezdi gasnat v planinata: Razkazi za našite redki rastenija. Zemizdat, Bulgaria. Pp. 7-15. (in Bulgarian).
Stoyanov, S., Stanilova, M., Yankova-Tsvetkova, E., Marinov, Y. and Traykova, B. (2024). In vitro micropropagation of Astragalus physocalyx (Fabaceae) and reintroduction of plants in its “Locus Classicus” on Mladezhki Hill in Plovdiv. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 30 (Supplement 1): 31-37.
Valev, S. (1976). Astragalus. In: Jordanov, D. (ed.). Flora Reipublicae Popularis Bulgaricae 6. Sofia. Pp. 157-158, t. 23, f.2.
Velchev, V. et al. (1984). Red data book of Bulgaria: 1-447. Sofiya.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.