Cytisus striatus, (Hill) Rothm.

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 : 89

17. C. striatus (Hill) Rothm. , Feddes Repert. 53: 149 (1944)

( C. pendulinus L. fil. , Genista striata Hill , Sarothamnus patens Webb , quoad descr.; inch Sarothamnus eriocarpus Boiss. & Reuter , 5. welwitschii Boiss. & Reuter ).

Erect, much-branched, 100-300 cm. Branches and twigs cylindrical, striate, usually 8- to 10-angled when young, often drying black; young branches sericeous or villous, later glabrescent and becoming leafless. Leaves solitary or sometimes fasciculate, those on lower branches 3- foliolate, petiolate, those on the middle and upper branches 3- or 1 -foliolate, sessile; leaflets 4-1 6 x 1-6 mm, ovate, elliptical to linear-lanceolate, glabrous and glaucous above, sericeous or villous beneath. Flowers solitary or in pairs, rarely in clusters of 3; pedicels as long as or up to twice as long as calyx. Calyx sericeous. Corolla yellow; standard 10-25 mm. Legume 18-35(-40) x 8-12 mm, straight or slightly curved, oblong-ovate to -elliptical, more or less inflated, densely hirsute, erect or semi-patent. Woods, hedges and scrub. • Portugal, W. & C. Spain. Hs Lu [Ga].

Extremely variable in dimensions of leaves and flowers, habit and indumentum.