Lygos Adanson Lygos sphaerocarpa, (L.) Heywood

20. Lygos Adanson View in CoL 1

{ Rétama Boiss. )

Unarmed shrubs. Leaves simple, soon deciduous. Flowers in racemes. Calyx urceolate, campanulate or turbinate, bilabiate; corolla white to yellow; stamens monadelphous; style filiform, incurved. Legume ovoid to globose, indéhiscent or finally incompletely dehiscent along ventral suture. Seeds 1(—2).

Literature: M. Zohary, Bull. Res. Counc. Israel Sect. D, Bot. 7D: 1-12 (1959) (sub Rétama }. 1 Corolla 5-8 mm, yellow

1. sphaerocarpa 1 Corolla 10-17 mm, white, sometimes becoming creamcoloured on drying 2 Keel cuspidate; legume obovoid, with a short mucro 2. monosperma 2 Keel obtuse or acute, rarely acuminate; legume obovoid- ellipsoid, attenuate into a beak 3. raetam

1. L. sphaerocarpa (L.) Heywood View in CoL , Feddes Repert. 79: 53 (1968)

{ Rétama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss. ).

Up to 2 m, much-branched. Branches erect or ascending, glabrous. Leaves linear to linearlanceolate, sericeous-pubescent, deciduous. Racemes dense. Calyx 3 mm, glabrous or pubescent, persistent in fruit; upper lip 2-lobed, the lower with 3 long teeth. Corolla 5-8 mm, yellow; standard suborbicular, glabrous or sparsely hairy; wings lanceolate, shorter than the obtuse keel. Legume 7-9 mm, ovoid to globose, muticous or shortly apiculate, smooth. Dry places, mainly on sandy soils. E. Portugal, C. & S. Spain. Hs Lu.