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Small shrub, cushion-shaped, up to 1 m in height and 1.5 m in diameter, with dense and intricate branches ending in strongly spiny apices. Stems and main branches with greyish bark, smooth, slightly fissured in thicker and older parts, with numerous scars of fallen leaves. Branchlets greyish or greenish-white, with few rigid hairs. Leaves (up to 5 \u00d7 3 cm) alternate, obovate-oblong \u2014sometimes spatulate\u2014, obtuse, entire or with some very pronounced lobes, slightly fleshy, green on both sides, glabrous or with few scattered hairs. Flowers in small short terminal racemes, of 4-6 flowers. Calyx with 4 sepals, linear-oblong, \u00b1 acute, glabrous, greenish-yellowish, 10 mm long. Corolla with 4 petals, obovate and longly unguiculate, 12-15 mm long, very intense yellow. Fruit a subsessile silicle 17-20 \u00d7 2-3 mm, with 2 parts or segments: lower part fertile, ellipsoid, dehiscent in 2 to short and convex valves, with some rigid hairs and visible veins; upper part (rostrum) sterile, linear-lanceolate, trinervate, glabrous, 3 times longer than the lower part. Seeds 2-4, contained in the lower part, obovate, smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12876","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVella mairei Humbert - 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=\"Vella mairei Humbert - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Small shrub, cushion-shaped, up to 1 m in height and 1.5 m in diameter, with dense and intricate branches ending in strongly spiny apices. 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