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Adenocarpus cincinnatus (Ball) Maire

Cytisus cincinnatus Ball

Spa.: Codeso.   Fre.: Adénocarpe.   Ara.: Urziz, auzzir, agultín.

Subshrub or shrub, up to 2 m in height, evergreen, hermaphrodite, very ramose, with upright branching and green foliage. Trunk and older branches with bark greyish-brown on the outside, bright yellow on the inside, which peels off into longitudinal strips. Branchlets green, densely villous, with very short, simple and circinate hairs. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with leaflets 8-12 × 4-7 mm, subequal, elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, slightly attenuated at the base, sessile, with entire margin, sometimes slightly involute, ± covered with helically inrolled hairs on both sides, matt green on both sides. Inflorescence in ± dense terminal racemes, with up to 40 flowers (or even more), with villous peduncle and pedicels. Calyx about 3 mm, campanulate, bilabiate, densely villous, with short hairs, not glandular; the upper lip divided to the base into 2 triangular-acuminate laciniae; the lower lip longer, divided on its upper third into 3 subulate teeth. Corolla papilionoid, yellow, with a silky-villous standard on the dorsal side; wings slightly shorter, completely glabrous; keel very recurved upwards, as long as the wings, slightly pubescent at the base. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Pods 3-4 × 0.6-0.7 cm, oblong-linear, compressed, covered with brown-blackish pedicellate glands, dehiscent. Seeds 2-5, ovoid, compressed, brown-dark and smooth.