Family: Fabaceae
Spartium
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 708 (1753).
Derivation: Greek sparios, name of some shrub, from whose flexible branches ropes were twisted.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Erect, much branched shrub with terete grooved stems; leaves few, small, simple, deciduous; stipules absent.
Flowers alternate, in lax terminal leafless many-flowered racemes; calyx spathe-like, split above, irregularly 1-lipped or rarely 2-lipped, with 5 short teeth at the apex; petals yellow; keel beaked, longer than the wings, shorter than the standard, stamens monadelphous, anthers alternately basifixed and longer and dorsifixed and shorter.
Pod linear-oblong in outline, laterally compressed, dehiscent, subseptate between the seeds, glabrous; seeds numerous, arillate. Monotypic, of Mediterranean origin.
Biology:
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