PEA FAMILY
Genista acanthoclada(Sarı diken)
(Dorniger Ginster)
Leguminosae (Fabaceae}
Densely branched, very spiny shrub, up to 100 cm. Leaves alternate, 3-
foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblanceolate up to 10x3 mm. Flowers in short terminal racemes. Petals free, yellow, up to 14 mm. fruit an ovoid legumen, adpressed hairy. Fl. March-May. Rocky limestone slopes,
macchie, Pinus nigra forest.
Türkiye, Greece, Aegean, Cyrenaica.
