Ononis cephalotes, Boiss.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 146-147

30. O. cephalotes Boiss. , Elenchus 33 (1838)

( O. montana Cosson ).

Perennial with woody rhizome 8-20 cm; stems densely glandular-hairy and villous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 3-7 mm,

suborbicular to broadly elliptical or obovate, obtuse or emargin­ ate, densely glandular-hairy. Flowers subsessile, borne singly at each node, in short, dense, terminal racemes without conspicuous leaf-like bracts. Corolla c. 10 mm, yellow, equalling or exceeding the calyx. Legume c. 6 mm. Seeds 1—2, c. 3 mm, brown, minutely tuberculate. S.E. Spain. Hs.