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Leaves alternate, unifoliolate, stipulate \u2014stipular organ with 2 spines up to 2 mm\u2014, subsessile, with leaf blade 1.5-9 \u00d7 1-3.5 mm; leaves of the macroblasts linear-lanceolate, with a spinescent apex, and on the brachyblasts obovate, retuse and muticous; all attenuated at the base, green and glabrescent on both sides. Inflorescences racemiform, pauciflorous, born on stipular organs or on short stems of the previous year, with (1)2-3 pedicellate flowers, with pedicel up to 4.5 mm, glabrescent. Calyx 3-6 mm, glabrescent \u2014ciliate margin\u2014, split into 2 lips usually subequal and smaller than the tube, the upper lip bipartite into 2 triangular segments, and the lower lip trifid or tridentate. Corolla 9-12 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with standard obovate, emarginate, glabrous, subequal or somewhat longer than the wings and the keel. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary glabrous, stigma elliptical and introrse. Pod (10)15-35 \u00d7 3.5-4.5 mm, linear-oblong, compressed, green at first turning brown-blackish, glabrous, with 1-7 seeds. Seeds 2-3 mm, ovoid-subglobose, smooth, brownish or greenish-brown, with no aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Genista scorpius","name_html":"<strong>Genista scorpius<\/strong> (L.) DC.","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>Spartium scorpius <\/em>L.","other_name":"<em>Spa<\/em>.: Aliaga, genista.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre<\/em>.: Gen\u00eat \u00e9pineux.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Ara<\/em>.: Guendul, achfund.","flowering":"February to June.","fruiting":"May to August.","habitat":"Forests, thickets, rocky outcrops and steppes on all types of terrain, with semiarid to subhumid bioclimate, on thermomediterranean and mesomediterranean floors.","distribution":"Southern France, Iberian Peninsula and Morocco.","observations":"The type subspecies, <strong>G. scorpius<\/strong> (L.) DC. subsp. <strong>scorpius<\/strong>, has floral pedicels 2-5 mm long and hairy young branchlets. It is abundant in southern France and much of the Iberian Peninsula. Its presence in North Africa seems to be reduced to the northern region of Morocco, on chalky soils next to the sea, at Cape Nazari (Tetuan). Whilst <strong>G. scorpius<\/strong> subsp.<strong> myriantha<\/strong> (Ball.) Maire (<em>G. myriantha<\/em> Ball.) are plants with floral pedicels up to 2 mm and young branchlets glabrous or hairy, more extended, distributed through mountains in the eastern Middle Atlas, High Atlas, Anti-Atlas and surrounding areas, reaching from the S up to Jebel Bani. Plants with intermediate characteristics between the two taxa, growing in the Middle Atlas and Plateau Chorfa are identified as <strong>G. scorpius<\/strong> subsp.<strong> intermedia<\/strong> Emb. &amp; Maire. The last two are endemic to Morocco.\r\n\r\nAnother similar species but spreading in habit, barely reaching 30 cm from the ground, is<strong> G. carpetana <\/strong>Lange, represented in the territory only by one of the recognised subspecies: <strong>G. carpetana <\/strong>subsp.<strong> nociva <\/strong>(Pau &amp; Font Quer) C.Vicioso &amp; M. La\u00ednz (<em>G. nociva<\/em> Pau &amp; Font Quer) endemic to Morocco; it grows in humid siliceous meadows in cedar forests of the Issaguen plateau (central Rif). The type subspecies (subsp. <em>carpetana<\/em>) grows in NW and central Spain.","conservation":"<em>G. scorpius <\/em>is a relatively common and widespread species, not considered threatened. Currently, it has not been assessed at a global level in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>. Whereas <em>G. carpetana<\/em> subsp <em>nociva <\/em>is a rare endemic species with few individuals and a very restricted distribution area. 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