Cytisus cantabricus, (Willk.) Reichenb. fil .

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

19. C. cantabricus (Willk.) Reichenb. fil. in Reichenb. & Reichenb. fil., Icon. FI. Germ. 22: 15 (?1869)

( Sarothamnus cantabricus Willk. ).

Erect, 100-200 cm. Branches and twigs 5- to 8-angled and furrowed, glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate, and sessile on young twigs; 3-foliolate and petiolate on older twigs. Leaflets obovate to lanceolate, the lateral shorter than the central, sparsely sericeousvillous or glabrous above, densely so beneath. Flowers solitary; pedicel twice as long as calyx. Calyx glabrous. Corolla yellow; standard 15-18 mm. Legume 30-50x6-8 mm, arcuate, compressed, covered with long white hairs, becoming black at maturity. Scrub and woods. • N. Spain, just extending to S. W. France. Ga Hs.