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Adenocarpus anagyrifolius Coss. & Balansa

Spa.: Codeso.   Fre.: Adénocarpe.   Ara.: Urziz, auzzir, agultín.

Shrub, up to 2.5 m in height, evergreen, hermaphrodite, very ramose from the base, with upright branching, overall appearance glaucous. Trunk and older branches with ± greyish-brown bark, which peels off into longitudinal strips. Branchlets brown-greenish, the younger ones green, glabrous or with some hairs promptly caducous. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with leaflets 1.5-3.5 × 0.8-1.7 cm, subequal, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, with attenuated base, sessile, with entire margin, not involute; mature leaflets ± flat, glabrous and glaucescent on both sides —when young they can be villous—, sometimes with violet tones. Inflorescence in terminal racemes, ± dense (5-30 flowers), up to 15 cm long, with peduncle and pedicels with appressed hairs initially but then glabrous. Calyx c. 3 mm, campanulate, bilabiate, glabrous or glabrescent, not glandular; the upper lip divided up to the base into 2 elliptic-triangular, acuminate laciniae; the lower lip longer, divided almost halfway into 3 linear-subulate teeth. Corolla papilionoid, yellow, with standard silky-pubescent on the dorsal side; wings slightly shorter, glabrous, and keel the same length as the standard, pubescent at the base. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Pod 2.5-5 × 0.5-0.6 cm, linear-oblong, compressed, with or without glandular tubercles, dehiscent. Seeds 2-8, ovoid, compressed, dark brown and smooth.