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Leaves unifoliolate, subsessile, alternate or in fascicles, without stipules, with leaflet <em>c.<\/em> 8 \u00d7 3 mm, linear-lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, attenuated at the base, hairy on both sides, green. Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary, with pedicel 3-6 mm, sericeous, with 2 bracteoles about halfway. Calyx 3-5 mm, campanulate, bilabiate, with lips briefly dentate, the upper lip with 2 teeth and the lower lip with 3 and slightly larger, sericeous. Corolla 9-15 mm, papilionoid, yellow, with an obovate or suborbicular standard, slightly longer than the wings and the keel, the latter clearly incurved. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary hairy, and stigma elongated. Pod 12-25 \u00d7 5-8 mm, oblong, highly compressed, green at first and then blackish-brown, villous, with 1-4 seeds. Seeds 2.2-4 mm, ovate-suborbicular, highly compressed, smooth, brown-blackish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Cytisus balansae","name_html":"<strong>Cytisus<\/strong> <strong>balansae <\/strong>(Boiss.) Ball","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>Sarothamnus balansae <\/em>Boiss., <em>C. purgans<\/em> subsp.<em> balansae<\/em> (Boiss.) Maire","other_name":"<em>Spa<\/em>.: Piorno del Atlas.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre<\/em>.: Cytise.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Ara<\/em>.: Irrhis, amsgr\u00e9, chdida.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Tam<\/em>.: azmorui, tadamruit.","flowering":"June to July.","fruiting":"July to September.","habitat":"Clearings in forests and thickets of high mountain, calcareous or siliceous (1,600-3,500 m in altitude), in semiarid to humid bioclimate, on oromediterranean and supramediterranean floors.","distribution":"Endemic to the high mountains of North Africa. It grows in Morocco, in the highest summits of the Middle Atlas, High Atlas (central and western) and Anti-Atlas (Jebel Saghro) and, in Algeria, in Lalla Khadidja (Djurdjura) and the mountain tops of Hodna, of Belezma and of Aures.","observations":"<em>C. valdesii<\/em> Talavera &amp; P.E.Gibbs (<em>C. balansae <\/em>var. <em>atlanticus <\/em>Ball) is the name applied to various Moroccan plants from the summits and slopes of the Middle Atlas, High Atlas and eastern Anti-Atlas, wishing to differentiate them from <em>C. balansae<\/em> by the number of ribs, particularly high (12-14), branches with straight hairs only, and flowers with a standard larger than the wings and the keel. These characters have been reviewed (Auvray &amp; Malecot, 2013) and have not been considered of a diagnostic value, therefore the species in question is not recognised.","conservation":"A relatively common and widely distributed species, not considered threatened. 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