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Chesneya

Duan, Lei;Yang, Xue;Liu, Peiliang;Johnson, Gabriel;Wen, Jun;Chang, Zhaoyang

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Chesneya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 47 species which range across temperate Asia, from Turkey through Syria, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and the Himalayas to Inner Mongolia, central China, and Myanmar. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderFabales
  5. FamilyFabaceae
Native toAfghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Myanmar
Observations recorded1,472

General: were formerly placed in Chesneya but there are no molecular

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
7
With media
4
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
US, MICH, MNHN, RSA, BG
Recorded in
China, Iran, Perse, Afghanistan

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Chesneya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 47 species which range across temperate Asia, from Turkey through Syria, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and the Himalayas to Inner Mongolia, central China, and Myanmar. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

==Species== 47 species are accepted: Chesneya acaulis Chesneya afghanica Chesneya antoninae Chesneya astragalina Chesneya badachschanica Chesneya borissovii Chesneya botschantzevii Chesneya crassipes Chesneya cuneata Chesneya darvasica Chesneya depressa Chesneya dshungarica Chesneya elegans Chesneya ferganensis Chesneya gracilis Chesneya hissarica Chesneya intermedia Chesneya isfarensis Chesneya karatavica Chesneya kopetdaghensis Chesneya kotschyi Chesneya kschtutica Chesneya latefoliolatus Chesneya linczevskii Chesneya macrantha Chesneya mongolica Chesneya neplii Chesneya nikitinae Chesneya nubigena Chesneya parviflora Chesneya paucifoliolata Chesneya pavlovii Chesneya polystichoides Chesneya popovii Chesneya purpurea Chesneya quinata Chesneya rytidosperma Chesneya staintonii Chesneya tadzhikistana Chesneya ternata Chesneya tribuloides Chesneya trijuga Chesneya turkestanica Chesneya vaginalis Chesneya villosa Chesneya volkii Chesneya yunnanensis

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chesneya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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