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Leaves mostly unifoliolate \u2014lower leaves sometimes trifoliolate\u2014, opposite \u2014the upper leaves alternate\u2014 subsessile or petiolate, without stipules, promptly deciduous, with leaflets 5-13 \u00d7 2-3.2 mm, oblanceolate or spatulate, \u00b1 obtuse, attenuated at the base, entire, sericeous-silvery on both sides. Flowers solitary, in pairs or in groups of 3 at the end branchlets of the current year, pedicellate, with pedicel up to 8 mm, sericeous. Calyx 12-15 mm, only just bilabiate, cylindrical at first and later inflated, subcylindrical-urceolate, papery, sericeous, pinkish or somewhat purple, with 5 triangular-subulate teeth, the upper 2 somewhat smaller. Corolla 14-19 mm, papilionoid, purplish to blue-purple \u2014exceptionally white\u2014, marcescent, with an oblong standard, truncate, glabrous, and wings and keel as long as or slightly longer than the standard. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary hairy, and capitated stigma. Pod 12-22 \u00d7 (3.5)4-6 mm, oblong or narrowly-elliptical, compressed, acuminate and attenuate at the base, sericeous, with a persistent calyx, and 1-4 seeds. Seeds 2.7-3.2 mm, ovoid, compressed, smooth, glabrous, usually dark-brown, shiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Erinacea anthyllis","name_html":"<strong>Erinacea<\/strong> <strong>anthyllis<\/strong> Link","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>Anthyllis erinacea <\/em>L., <em>E. pungens <\/em>Boiss.","other_name":"<em>Eng.<\/em>: Hedgehog broom.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Spa<\/em>.: Piorno azul, aulaga merina.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre<\/em>.: H\u00e9rissonnette piquante, gen\u00eat-h\u00e9risson.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Ara<\/em>.: Keddad, achdir, awutem, qesdir, ruggis.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Tam<\/em>.: Timachuid.","flowering":"April to June.","fruiting":"July to September.","habitat":"Clearings in forests, thickets and rocky outcrops, on calcareous and siliceous substrates, in mountains and high plateaux (1,000-3,500 m in altitude). In semiarid to subhumid bioclimate, on supramediterranean and oromediterranean floors.","distribution":"Southern France (Pyrenees), and eastern and southern half of peninsular Spain, and NW Africa: Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. On the studied territory it is abundant in the western Rif, Middle Atlas, High Atlas, Anti-Atlas, western and central Saharan Atlas, steppic mountains of the High Muluya \u2014W of Midelt\u2014, mountains of Hodna, Bellezma, Djurdjura, Babors, Tunisian Dorsal and other mountains of central Tunisia (Jebel Sened, Sidi Buzid, etc.).","observations":"The specimens in Tunisia (Thala region) and eastern Algeria (Jebel Chelia, between 1,300 and 1,600 m \u2014Aures\u2014) are grouped under <strong>E. anthyllis<\/strong> subsp. <strong>schoenenbergeri <\/strong>Raynaud [<em>E. schoenenbergeri<\/em> (Raynaud) Raynaud]. It differs from <strong>E. anthyllis <\/strong>Link subsp. <strong>anthyllis<\/strong> by its larger size, not hemispherical, and especially because all leaves are trifoliolate, as well as for its flowers with a pink corolla.","conservation":"A relatively common and widely distributed species, not considered threatened. Currently, it has not been assessed at a global level in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>.","genus":[{"short_name":"Erinacea","name_html":"<strong>Erinacea<\/strong> Adans.","short_description":"","references":"Raynaud, C. 1976. <em>E. anthyllis<\/em> subsp. <em>schoenenbergeri<\/em> R., nov. subsp. taxon nouveau pour la flore de l\u2019Afrique du Nord. <em>Bull. Soc. Bot. France<\/em> 123: 581-585.\r\n\r\nRothmaler, W. 1949. Revision der Genisteen. II. Die Gattungen <em>Erinacea, Spartium<\/em> und <em>Calycotome<\/em>. <em>Bot. Jahrb<\/em>. 74: 271-287.\r\n\r\nVicioso, C. 1955. Gen\u00edsteas espa\u00f1olas. 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Corolla 14-19 mm, papilionoid, purplish to blue-purple \u2014exceptionally white\u2014, marcescent, with an oblong standard, truncate, glabrous, and wings and keel as long as or slightly longer than the standard. Androecium monadelphous, with 10 stamens. Ovary hairy, and capitated stigma. Pod 12-22 \u00d7 (3.5)4-6 mm, oblong or narrowly-elliptical, compressed, acuminate and attenuate at the base, sericeous, with a persistent calyx, and 1-4 seeds. 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