taxonID	type	description	language	source
A06F8784AC31FFE038EAFD7B403EF9AE.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Swat district, Kanju Town, Sector-D, 34 ° 49 ’ 46 ” N, 72 ° 21 ’ 14 ” E, 1022 m a. s. l., March 10, 2018, Zahid Ullah, 005694 (holotype SWAT; isotypes SWAT and RAW). Paratype: — Pakistan, B 7, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Swat district Kanju Town Sector-D, 22 March 2018, Sohail Khan & Zahid Ullah No. ZU 18 - 44, (SWAT 004855); Kanju Town Sector-D near passport office, 01 May 2022, Wahid Ullah & M. Zeb, No. WU- 198 (SWAT 002596); Kanju Town Sector-D, 01 May 2022, Ullah & M. Zeb, No. WU- 199, 34.834121 N, 72.35067 E (SWAT 002595); Kanju Town, Sector-E, 9 March 2022, Musarrat Ali & Z. Ullah, No. MA- 01 (SWAT 003241); Kanju town, sector-D, near Swat University old campus, 1023 m, 22 March 2024, Rahman Ali, (RAW 103214); Kanju town, sector-D, near Aqsa Masjid, 1040 m, 21 May 2023, Zahid Ullah, (RAW 103215); Swat district, Kanju town, sector-D, in front of University of Swat [old] campus, March 2020, Zahid Ullah, (RAW 101449!); Kanju Township, Sector-D, 9 March 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 27 j, (RAW 101725); Kanju Township, Sector-D, 9 March 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 27 - f, (RAW 101724); Kanju Township, Sector-D, 3 April 2021, Zahid Ullah, (RAW 101728); Kanju town, sector D, in front of University of Swat campus, 4 May 2018, Amir Sultan, Zahid Ullah & Shakeel Ahmad, No. 1045, (RAW 101451); Kanju town, sector D, 18 Febuary 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 05 - b, (RAW 101722); Kanju town, sector D, 16 April 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 26 - b, (RAW 101726); Kanju town, sector D, 16 April 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 26, (RAW 101727); Kanju town, sector D, 9 March 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 27 - b, (RAW 101723); Kanju town, sector D, 16 April 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 26 - d, (RAW 101721); Kanju town, sector D, 16 April 2020, Zahid Ullah & Sohail Khan, No. SK 26 - c, (RAW 101720); Swat district, cliffs north of Mingora, 13 April 1975, Yasin Nasir & E. T. Ecker, No. 7623 (RAW 47510); from Saidu Sharif- on main road towards (Marghuzar) on cliffs, ± 3,300 ft, 8 April 1956, R. R. Stewart, No. 27426, (RAW 18195); Marghuzar, ± 4,000 ft, 6 March 1959, Dr. Salt, No. 13, (RAW 18524).	en	Ullah, Zahid, Khan, Amjad, Sultan, Amir, Ali, Ahmad, Mumtaz, Abdul Samad (2024): Astragalus kanjuensis, a new species of section Aegacantha (Galegeae-Fabaceae) from Swat, Pakistan. Phytotaxa 671 (3): 211-230, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1
A06F8784AC31FFE038EAFD7B403EF9AE.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — Morphologically, Astragalus kanjuensis is closely related to A. vallis-astoris in the section Aegacantha, but differs from A. vallis-astoris, by its stipules (narrowly triangular, 3.5 – 10 mm long, with 1 – 3 longitudinal nerves vs. long attenuate, 8 – 12 mm long, with 2 – 4 distinct longitudinal nerves, obliquely inserted at the stem); leaflets (7 – 12 pairs, elliptic to narrowly obovate, 3 – 10.5 × 1.5 – 4 mm, often conduplicate, obtuse to slightly emarginate, mucronulate (mucro ca. 0.2 mm long), or lacking mucro, vs. 12 – 14 pairs, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 5 – 9 × 1 – 3 mm, all shortly mucronulate-acuminate, flat); peduncles (2.5 – 10 cm long, pilose with only white hairs vs. 2.5 – 3.5 cm long, pilose with mixed white and black hairs; raceme (2 flowered vs. 2 – 5 flowered); bracts (2.5 – 6.5 mm long, densely pilose with only white hairs vs. up to 5 mm long, pilose with mixed white and black hairs); pedicels (3.5 – 6 mm long, densely pubescent with only white hairs vs. 3 – 5 mm long, densely pubescent with black hairs); calyx (11 – 18 mm long, loosely covered with subappressed 0.2 – 0.8 mm long white hairs, teeth 2.5 – 6 mm long, sparsely pilose with only white hairs vs. 11 – 12 mm long, loosely covered with ascending to spreading 0.5 – 0.8 mm long white hairs and with sub-appressed shorter black hairs, teeth upto 3 mm long, sparsely white and black hairy on inner side); vexillum (23 – 32 mm long vs. 24 – 25 mm long); wings (21 – 28 mm long, limbs oblong, 7 – 10 × 3 – 5 mm, claw 14 – 18 mm long vs. up to 22 mm long; limbs narrowly oblong, 11 × 2.5 mm; claw up to 11 mm long); ovary short stipitate, 4 – 5 × 0.9 – 1.2 mm, style glabrous in the middle vs. stipe up to 1 mm long, style hairy up to the middle); legumes (cylindrical, elliptic to oblong, 12 – 21 × 4 – 8 mm, beak abruptly curved 2 – 3 (– 4) mm long, densely pubescent with only spreading 0.1 – 0.2 mm long white hairs vs. narrowly oblong, 18 – 20 × 6 mm, keeled ventrally, widely grooved dorsally, with a slightly curved beak up to 5 mm long, rather densely covered with spreading 0.5 – 3 mm long white hairs and with very short mixed white and black hairs); seed (1.8 – 2.5 × 2.3 – 3 mm, greyish brown, rhomboid-reniform, surface slightly wrinkled vs. 3 – 4 × 2.5 – 3 mm, reddish brown, reniform, surface smooth) represented in Table 1.	en	Ullah, Zahid, Khan, Amjad, Sultan, Amir, Ali, Ahmad, Mumtaz, Abdul Samad (2024): Astragalus kanjuensis, a new species of section Aegacantha (Galegeae-Fabaceae) from Swat, Pakistan. Phytotaxa 671 (3): 211-230, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1
A06F8784AC31FFE038EAFD7B403EF9AE.taxon	description	Description: — Pale-yellowish to greyish, cushion-forming, procumbent to ascending perennial spiny subshrub. Rootstock and basal stem woody, bark rough and fissured, plants 15 – 30 (– 50) cm high, branched from the base, older branches covered with persistent leaf bases in the lower region, and persistent spiny rachises of previous year leaves. Stem 20 – 25 cm long, at the base 3 – 5 mm in diameter, round with pale greyish bark, sparsely hairy or glabrescent. Stem of the current year yellowish-brown in colour, 13 – 22 cm long with young branches densely appressed pilose, with c 0.75 mm long white hairs. Internodes of young branches to 10 – 20 mm long, roundish, yellowish brown to pale brown. Stipules greyish-white, membranous, 3.5 – 10 mm long, connate at the base, narrowly triangular, amplexicaulis, upper 2 – 6 mm free, 1.5 – 3 mm adnate with petiole, with 1 – 3 longitudinal nerves, densely pubescent with appressed white 0.5 – 0.9 mm long hairs. Leaves 3 – 11 cm long (including petiole), paripinnate, sub-erect to erect; petiole (1.3 –) 3 – 4.5 cm long, rachis (1.7 –) 3.5 – 6.5 cm long, green or pale yellowish, slender, sparsely to densely pilose with subappressed 0.4 – 1 mm long white hairs, tip of rachis spiny, 2 – 3.5 mm long, pungent. Leaflets 7 – 12 pairs, subopposite, usually folded, greyish green, upper leaflets gradually diminishing in size, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 3 – 10.5 × 1.5 – 4 mm; petiolules c. 0.5 mm long, obtuse to slightly emarginate, mucronulate (mucro ca. 0.2 mm long), or lacking a mucro, abaxial surface densely pubescent with appressed 0.6 – 1.5 mm long hairs, adaxial surface densely pilose with appressed 0.8 – 1.7 mm long hairs. Peduncles 2.5 – (5 – 6) – 10 cm long, densely to sparsely pilose with 0.2 – 0.4 mm long white hairs. Racemes 2 - flowered. Bracts 2.5 – 6.5 mm long, whitish-membranous, filiform, densely pilose with up to 1.5 long white hairs. Pedicels 3 – 4 (– 6) mm long, somewhat reflexed in fruiting, predominantly covered with spreading ca. 0.4 mm long white hairs. Calyx 11 – (15 – 16) – 18 mm (including teeth), tubular, dark red-suffused, loosely covered with subappressed 0.2 – 0.8 mm long white hairs, tube 9 – 12 mm, calyx teeth two short (2.5 – 6 mm long), three long (3.5 – 6 mm long), subulate, pilose with 0.4 – 1 mm long white hairs. Corolla yellow becoming reddish with age, glabrous. Vexillum 23 – 32 mm long; limb 14.5 – 20 × 8 – 10 mm, gradually narrowed at the base, obovate, slightly emarginate; claw 8.5 – 12 × 2 – 3.5 mm, slightly longer than the wings, slightly panduriform. Wings 21 – 28 mm long, limb 7 – 10 × 3 – 5 mm, oblong, obtuse, narrowed to the base; auricle 0.8 – 1 mm long; claw 14 – 18 mm long. Keel 21 – 26 mm long, subrostral, limbs obliquely elliptic, within the middle widely gibbously curved, lower and upper edges slightly curved, subacute, 7 – 8 × 3.5 – 4 mm; auricle 0.3 – 0.5 mm long, claw 14 – 18 mm long. Staminal tube 19 – 25 mm long, obliquely cut at the mouth, filaments alternate short and long. Ovary 4 – 5 × 0.9 – 1.2 mm, shortly stipitate, densely pilose with subappressed 0.2 – 0.7 mm long white hairs; style c. 20 mm long, sparsely pilose at the base, glabrous above. Legumes subsessile, 12 – 21 × 4 – 8 mm, coriaceous, cylindrical, elliptic to oblong, greyish brown, 10 – 16 seeded, bilocular, densely covered with spreading 0.1 – 0.2 mm long white hairs, beak abruptly curved 2 – 3 mm or sometime 3 – 4 mm long. Seeds 1.8 – 2.5 × 2.3 – 3 mm, greyish brown, rhomboid-reniform, surface slightly wrinkled. Phenology: Flowering from February to April and fruiting from April to May.	en	Ullah, Zahid, Khan, Amjad, Sultan, Amir, Ali, Ahmad, Mumtaz, Abdul Samad (2024): Astragalus kanjuensis, a new species of section Aegacantha (Galegeae-Fabaceae) from Swat, Pakistan. Phytotaxa 671 (3): 211-230, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1
A06F8784AC31FFE038EAFD7B403EF9AE.taxon	etymology	Etymology: The specific epithet refers to Kanju town in Swat district, northwest Pakistan, the type locality to which the new species is confined. Swat is a place with rich biodiversity, topographic, geographic and sociocultural diversity. FIGURE 6. Morphological comparison between Astragalus kanjuensis (A 1 – D 1) and A. vallis-astoris (A 2 – D 2): (A 1 – A 2) Leaf, (B 1 – B 2) Stipules, (C 1 – C 2) variation in leaflets at adaxial surface, (D 1 – D 2) variation in leaflets at abaxial surface. Characters Astragalus kanjuensis Astragalus vallis-astoris Plant prostrate to sub – erect, 20 – 50 cm tall sub – erect, upto 30 cm tall Stems more than 20 cm long, with brownish grey bark; 20 – 25 cm long, with pale greyish bark, sparsely hairy or stems of the current year 8 – 20 cm long, 0.3 – 1 mm long Stems glabrescent; stem of the current year 13 – 22 cm long with white hairs, at the nodes region white and black hairs 0.5 – 0.75 mm long, at the node region only white hairs mixed 3.5 – 10 mm long, with 1 – 3 longitudinal nerves, connate at 8 – 12 mm long, with 2 – 4 distinct longitudinal nerves, Stipules the base obliquely inserted at the stem 4 – 11 cm long, sub-erect to erect, petiole (2.3 –) 3 – 4 cm 6 – 10 cm long, nearly erect; petiole (2.5 –) 3 – 4 cm long, Leaves long, with the rachis green or pale yellowish, sparsely to with the rachis green, loosely hairy densely pilose 7 – 12 pairs, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 3 – 10.5 × 1.5 – 4 mm, obtuse to slightly emarginate, mucronulate (mucro ca. 12 – 14 pairs, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 5 – 9 × 1 – 3 mm, 0.2 mm long), or lacking mucro, abaxial surface densely all shortly mucronulate-acuminate, on both sides rather Leaflets pubescent with appressed 0.6 – 1.5 mm long hairs, adaxial densely to densely covered with sub-appressed hairs surface densely pilose with appressed 0.8 – 1.7 mm long 0.5 – 0.8 mm long, flat hairs, usually folded 2.5 – 10 cm long, densely to loosely pilose with only white Peduncles 2.5 – 3.5 cm long, loosely white and black hairy hairs Raceme only 2 flowered 2 – 5 flowered Bracts 2.5 – 6.5 mm long, densely pilose with only white hairs upto 5 mm long, white and black hairy 3.5 – 6 mm long, predominantly covered with white only Pedicels 3 – 5 mm long, predominantly black hairy hairs 11 – 12 mm long, loosely covered with ascending to 11 – 18 mm long, loosely covered with subappressed 0.2 – spreading white hairs 0.5 – 0.8 mm long and with sub- Calyx 0.8 mm long white hairs, teeth 2.5 – 6 mm long, sparsely appressed shorter black hairs; teeth upto 3 mm long, pilose with only white hairs sparsely white and black hairy on inner side Vexillum 23 – 32 mm long; limbs upto 10 wide 24 – 25 mm long; limb upto 9 mm wide 21 – 28 mm long; limbs oblong, 7 – 10 × 3 – 5 mm, auricle upto 22 mm long; limbs narrowly oblong, 11 × 2.5 mm; Wings 0.8 – 1 mm long; claw 14 – 18 mm long auricle upto 0.5 mm long; claw upto 11 mm long 21 – 26 mm long; limb 7 – 8 × 3.5 – 4 mm; claw 14 – 18 mm Keel upto 18 mm long; limbs 7 × 4 mm; claw upto 11 mm long long shortly stipitate, 4 – 5 × 0.9 – 1.2 mm; style glabrous in the Ovary stipe upto 1 mm long; style hairy up to the middle middle elliptic to oblong, 12 – 21 mm long, 4 – 8 mm high and narrowly oblong, 18 – 20 mm long, ca. 6 mm high and wide, keeled, ventrally, slightly cylindrical dorsally, beak wide, keeled, ventrally, widely grooved dorsally, with Legumes abruptly curved 2 – 3 mm or sometime 3 – 4 mm long, a slightly curved beak upto 5 mm long, rather densely densely covered with only spreading 0.1 – 0.2 mm long covered with spreading white hairs 0.5 – 3 mm long and white hairs sometimes mixed with very short white and black hairs 1.8 – 2.5 × 2.3 – 3 mm, greyish brown, surface slightly Seeds 2.5 – 4 × 3 – 3.3 mm, reddish brown, surface smooth wrinkled	en	Ullah, Zahid, Khan, Amjad, Sultan, Amir, Ali, Ahmad, Mumtaz, Abdul Samad (2024): Astragalus kanjuensis, a new species of section Aegacantha (Galegeae-Fabaceae) from Swat, Pakistan. Phytotaxa 671 (3): 211-230, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.671.3.1
