Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 708 (1753).

Derivation: Greek sparios, name of some shrub, from whose flexible branches ropes were twisted.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect, much branched shrub with terete grooved stems; leaves few, small, simple, deciduous; stipules absent.

Flowers alternate, in lax terminal leafless many-flowered racemes; calyx spathe-like, split above, irregularly 1-lipped or rarely 2-lipped, with 5 short teeth at the apex; petals yellow; keel beaked, longer than the wings, shorter than the standard, stamens monadelphous, anthers alternately basifixed and longer and dorsifixed and shorter.

Pod linear-oblong in outline, laterally compressed, dehiscent, subseptate between the seeds, glabrous; seeds numerous, arillate. Monotypic, of Mediterranean origin.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available