Lygos Adanson

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 : 101

20. Lygos Adanson 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