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Genisteae is a tribe of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the subfamily Faboideae of the family Fabaceae. It includes a number of well-known plants including broom, lupine (lupin), gorse and laburnum. The tribe's greatest diversity is in the Mediterranean, and most genera are native to Europe, Africa, the Canary Islands, India and ...
Genista / dʒ ɛ ˈ n ɪ s t ə / [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom, though the term may also refer to other genera, including Cytisus and Chamaecytisus.
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Cytisus scoparius (syn. Sarothamnus scoparius), the common broom or Scotch broom, is a deciduous leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe. [2] In Great Britain and Ireland, the standard name is broom; [3] [4] [5] this name is also used for other members of the Genisteae tribe, such as French broom or Spanish broom; and the term common broom is sometimes used for clarification.
Retama (also known as rotem, Hebrew: רותם) is a genus of flowering bushes in the legume family, Fabaceae.It belongs to the broom tribe, Genisteae. [2] Retama broom bushes are found natively in North Africa, the Levant and some parts of southern Europe.
Genisteae; Podalyrieae; Sophoreae; Leptolobieae; Ormosieae; Genera and species incertae sedis. Clathrotropis macrocarpa Ducke; Haplormosia Harms [5] Oberholzeria Swanepoel et al. 2015 [6] Orphanodendron Barneby & J.W.Grimes [7] Pericopsis Thwaites; Sakoanala R. Vig. Synonyms; Genistoids sensu lato; Genistoid alliance sensu Polhill 1981 [10]
Cytisus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to open sites (typically scrub and heathland) in Europe, western Asia and North Africa.It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and is one of several genera in the tribe Genisteae which are commonly called brooms.
Some Fabaceae, such as Scotch broom and other Genisteae, are leguminous but are usually not called legumes by farmers, who tend to restrict that term to food crops. [ 5 ] The FAO recognizes 11 primary pulses, excluding green vegetable legumes (e.g. green peas) and legumes used mainly for oil extraction (e.g., soybeans and groundnuts) or used ...