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Leaves unifoliolate, alternate, subsessile, very promptly deciduous, with stipules, with leaflet 3-7 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, entire, sericeous-silvery on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, solitary or geminate, lax, axillary, with flowers shortly pedicellate, each accompanied by 2 promptly caducous bracteoles. Calyx <em>c.<\/em> 4 mm, campanulate-urceolate, bilabiate, with subequal lips and shorter than the tube, the upper lip bipartite and the lower lip tridentate and with very short teeth, \u00b1 reddish, glabrous or glabrescent. Corolla 7-10 mm, papilionoid, white, with an ovate or suborbicular standard, slightly emarginate at the apex, sericeous towards the distal part of the dorsal side and often with reddish veins, wings subequal in size to the standard and an obtuse keel, often as long as the wings and the standard. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary glabrous, and a small stigma. Pod 7-18 \u00d7 5-10 mm, ovoid-globose, not keeled, longly attenuated at both ends, glabrous, dehiscent, green at first and then brown or red-brown, usually with 1 seed. Seeds 3.5-7 mm, ovoid-oblong, smooth, greenish-yellow at first and then blackish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12369","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Retama raetam (Forssk.) Webb subsp. raetam - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Retama raetam (Forssk.) 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