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Adenocarpus artemisiifolius Jahand., Maire & Weiller

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

Subshrub or shrub up to 1 m in height, ± evergreen, hermaphrodite, very ramose, with upright or extended-upright branching, generally whitish in appearance. Stems and older branches with greyish-brown bark, slightly fissured, that peels off into longitudinal strips. Young branchlets densely covered with silky-whitish hairs, silvery. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with leaflets 7-9 × 1.3 mm, subequal, oblanceolate (but with the margin sometimes so involute that they appear linear), subacute, slightly attenuated at the base, sessile, entire, silky-villous and silvery on both sides. Inflorescence in terminal racemes, ± dense with 6-20 flowers, with villous-silky peduncles and pedicels, with whitish erect short hairs. Calyx bilabiate, densely villous-silky, not glandular, with subcampanulate tube about 3.5 mm; the upper lip divided almost to the base into 2 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate laciniae; the lower lip much longer, with its upper third divided into into 3 subulate teeth. Corolla papilionoid, yellow, with a tomentose or glabrescent standard on the dorsal side; shorter wings, glabrous; keel very recurved upwards, slightly shorter than the wings. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Pod 2-4 × 0.6-0.7 cm, oblong-linear, compressed, dehiscent, and covered in brownish stipitate glands. Seeds, 2-5 per pod, ovoid, compressed, brownish and smooth.