Flora of North America species comparison

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Retama

bridal broom, bridal veil broom
Habit Shrubs [trees], unarmed.
Stems

erect, ascending, or pendent, branched from base, slender, persistently gray-green, canescent, nearly leafless.
Leaves

alternate [subopposite], unifoliolate;

stipules present;

petiolate;

blade margins entire, surfaces sericeous.
Inflorescences

10–50(–80+)-flowered, axillary, racemes [clustered on short axillary shoots];

bracts present, caducous.
Flowers

papilionaceous, short-pedicellate;

calyx campanulate [turbinate or urceolate], 3–5 mm, bilabiate, lobes 5, glabrous or pubescent;

corolla white [yellow], glabrous or pubescent;

wings longer or shorter than keel;

stamens 10, monadelphous;

anthers basifixed, dimorphic;

ovary sessile;

style incurved, white to greenish yellow, glabrous.
Fruits

legumes, short-stipitate, obovoid, indehiscent or incompletely dehiscent along adaxial suture, not constricted between seeds, glabrous or glabrate.
Seeds

1[–3], ovoid to rounded.
x

= 24.

Retama
Distribution
from USDA
sw Europe; n Africa; Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands) [Introduced, California; introduced also in w So]
Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Debra K. Trock.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
R. monosperma
Name authority Rafinesque: Sylva Tellur., 22. (1838) — name conserved
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