Sect. Onobrychis (Sensu Amirahmadi et al. 2016) Type:—(designated by Hanelt 2001) Onobrychis viciifolia Scop. Subsect. Onobrychis emend Hadadi & Kaz. Osaloo ≡ Sect. Eubrychis Candolle. Prodr. 2: 344. 1825 Type:— Onobrychis viciifolia Scop. = Sect. Lophobrychis Hand.-Mazz., Osterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 59:373. 1909. Type:—(designated by Amirahmadi et al. 2016): O. caput-galli (L.) Lam. = Sect. Lophobrychis Hand.-Mazz. subsect. Occidentales Širj., SpisyPrˇ´ýr. Fak. Masarykovy Univ. 56:34. 1925. Type:—(designated by Amirahmadi et al. 2016): O. caput-galli (L.) Lam. Description: Perennial or rarely annual herbs, wing often shorter than calyx to as long as it, standard as long as a keel to slightly longer or shorter than it, the basic chromosome number x= 7, distributed in Central Asia to Europe with a south extension into N and NE Africa.

Published as part of Hadadi, Anahita, Kaveh, Akram, Nafisi, Hanyieh & Kazempour-Osaloo, Shahrokh, 2023, Molecular phylogeny of Onobrychis sect. Onobrychis (Fabaceae-Hedysareae) with insights into its taxonomy and character evolution, pp. 196-216 in Phytotaxa 592 (3) on page 212, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.592.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7850428