Spartium junceum L.

Up to 3m (or more in cultivation).

Branches cylindical, striate, medullated, flexible, glaucous-green, glabrous.

Leaves 10-30 x 2-5 mm, sparse, oblong-linear to lanceolate, glabrous above, appressed-sericeous beneath, subsessile, caducous.

Flowers showy, sweet-scented, borne singly.

Corolla 20-25 mm.

Legume flat, sericeous, becoming glabrous.

Seeds 10-18.

Mediterranean region and S.W. Europe. (Chater AO, 1964)