Subfamily: Faboideae.
Phylogenetic Number: 3.18.05.
Tribe: Hedysareae.
Species Studied - Species in Genus: 0 studied; 1 in genus.
South Turkey.
Old World; Mediterranean (southern Turkey).
Although ripe fruits of S. hedysaroides P.E. Boissier & T.H.H. von Heldreich were not seen by Hedge (1970), and none are now present on the holotype at Geneva, he does not doubt the description of the fruit given by Boissier and Heldreich (1849). Hedge stated on page 589 in the generic description: "Fruit compressed, membranous, indehiscent, ovate-oblong, 2–3-seeded, not segmented, unarmed." He continued on the same page in the species description: "Fruit ca. 22 x 6 mm, ovate-oblong, adpressed pilose, membranous, attenuate-stipitate at base, 2–3-seeded, reticulately nerved, unarmed. ... It (Sartoria) differs from Onobrychis in the 3-ovulate ovary and 2–3-seeded, large ovate-oblong unarmed fruit; from Hedysarum it is distinguished by non-lomentoid fruit (sic)..." Onobrychis is 18.06, and Hedysarum is 18.02.
Tribe Hedysareae
Polhill (1981j) primarily used fruit characters for his key to genera of this tribe.
Authors: J.H. Kirkbride, Jr., C.R. Gunn, A.L. Weitzman, M.J. Dallwitz, K.R. Thiele
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