Astragalus rhizanthusBenth.

WFO wfo-0000189660 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Astragalus rhizanthus, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. a John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-04 / obs. 205809321
Astragalus rhizanthus, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. b John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205809289
Astragalus rhizanthus, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. c John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205809350
Astragalus rhizanthus, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. d John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205809417

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Astragalus rhizanthus is native: Afghanistan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanTibetXinjiangNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Astragalus rhizanthus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT
Xinjiang CHX
Nepal NEP ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Astragalus anomalus Bunge
  • Astragalus badrinathensis M.P.Sharma, Aswal & Mehrotra
  • Astragalus candolleanus Royle ex Benth.
  • Astragalus candolleanus var. pindreensis Baker
  • Astragalus dscheratuensis var. viridis Širj. & Rech.f.
  • Astragalus ladakensis N.P.Balakr.
  • Astragalus malacophyllus Benth. ex Bunge
  • Astragalus nuristanicus Širj. & Rech.f.
  • Astragalus nuristanicus var. elasoonensis Širj. & Rech.f.
  • Astragalus royleanus Bunge
  • Astragalus subcaulescens Royle ex Bunge
  • Astragalus vexillilongus E.Sheld.
  • Tragacantha anomala (Bunge) Kuntze
  • Tragacantha candolleana (Royle ex Benth.) Kuntze
  • Tragacantha malacophylla (Benth. ex Bunge) Kuntze
  • Tragacantha rhizantha (Benth.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.