taxonID	type	description	language	source
4F3B87993C6EFFD8F3852582B07D30CF.taxon	diagnosis	Affinis Trigonella aphanoneura planta 38 – 58 cm (nec ad 30 cm) alta, vexillum 9 – 10 mm (nec ± 7 mm) longum, leguminibus ovato lanceolatis (nec oblongis), 7 – 12 mm (nec 20 – 25 mm) longis differt.	en	Ranjbar, Massoud, Hajmoradi, Zahra (2015): A new species of Trigonella sect. Ellipticae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Iran, including cytogenetic and anatomical notes. Phytotaxa 202 (1): 26-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3
4F3B87993C6EFFD8F3852582B07D30CF.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — IRAN. Prov. Chahar Mahal Va Bakhtiar, between Naghan and Boroujen, Sabz-kuh protected area, Chahartagh, 31.70 ° N, 50.80 ° E, 2200 m, 5 June 2012, Ranjbar 33055, (holotype BASU, photo W).	en	Ranjbar, Massoud, Hajmoradi, Zahra (2015): A new species of Trigonella sect. Ellipticae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Iran, including cytogenetic and anatomical notes. Phytotaxa 202 (1): 26-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3
4F3B87993C6EFFD8F3852582B07D30CF.taxon	description	Perennial, 38 – 58 cm tall. Stem branched, glabrous or occasionally sparsely covered with appressed white hairs 0.2 – 0.5 mm long. Stipules herbaceous, 2 – 5 × 0.6 – 1 mm, adnate to the petiole for up to 0.5 mm, lanceolate, glabrous. Leaves 3 - foliolate, 8 – 17 mm long; petiole 2 – 5 mm long, glabrous to sparsely appressed hairy, similar to the stem. Leaflets obdeltoid to obcordate, 4 – 10 × 3 – 7 mm, truncate or emarginate, glabrous above, glabrous or sparsely appressed white hairy beneath, the hairs 0.2 – 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence an erect raceme, laxly 3 – 6 - flowered, apex aristate; peduncles 1.3 – 5.2 cm long. Pedicels 3 – 5 mm long. Bracts hyaline-membranous, 0.3 – 0.4 × ca. 0.2 mm, triangular, glabrous. Calyx ca. 5 mm long, tubular, glabrous or rarely with sparse appressed hairs 0.2 – 0.5 mm long; teeth filiform to subulate, ca. 2 mm long. Corolla yellow. Standard 9 – 10 × 5 – 6 mm, obovate, tapering abruptly into the short cuneate claw, apex rounded. Wings ca. 10 mm long; blades oblong, apex rounded, 6 – 7 × ca. 1.5 mm, claw linear, 0.6 – 0.7 mm long. Keel 8 – 9 mm long; blades 5 × 2.5 mm; claw linear, 3 – 4 mm long. Stamens diadelphous (9 fused + 1 free), 8 – 9 mm long. Ovary 5 – 6 mm with stipe ca. 1 mm long, glabrous. Pods 7 – 12 × 3 – 4 mm, ovate to lanceolate, widely rounded at the lateral side, with a slender stipe 1 mm long, at the apex obtuse to rounded, beaked; valves straw-colored to pale brown to cream, rugose with shallow ridges and furrows, glabrous. Seeds 1 – 2, oblong, ca. 3 × ca. 2 mm, greenish to brown.	en	Ranjbar, Massoud, Hajmoradi, Zahra (2015): A new species of Trigonella sect. Ellipticae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Iran, including cytogenetic and anatomical notes. Phytotaxa 202 (1): 26-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3
4F3B87993C6EFFD8F3852582B07D30CF.taxon	biology_ecology	Phenology: — Collected in flower and fruit in May and June.	en	Ranjbar, Massoud, Hajmoradi, Zahra (2015): A new species of Trigonella sect. Ellipticae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Iran, including cytogenetic and anatomical notes. Phytotaxa 202 (1): 26-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3
4F3B87993C6EFFD8F3852582B07D30CF.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The species is named after the type locality, Bakhtiari, Iran.	en	Ranjbar, Massoud, Hajmoradi, Zahra (2015): A new species of Trigonella sect. Ellipticae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Iran, including cytogenetic and anatomical notes. Phytotaxa 202 (1): 26-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3
4F3B87993C6EFFD8F3852582B07D30CF.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — T. bakhtiarica is a narrowly distributed endemic species, known only from the type locality (fig. 2). It was collected from a stony area in the mountainous region of the Sabz-kuh protected area. T. aphanoneura, the closest relative of T. bakhtiarica, is common in the dry-steppe of Boroujen protected area and a few localities in the Esfahan Province.	en	Ranjbar, Massoud, Hajmoradi, Zahra (2015): A new species of Trigonella sect. Ellipticae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Iran, including cytogenetic and anatomical notes. Phytotaxa 202 (1): 26-34, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.1.3
