Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Argyrolobium uniflorum (Decne.) Jaub. & Spach trib. Genisteae |
Bibliography | Ill. Pl. Orient. 1: 115 (1842) |
Native Range | s. & e. Medit. to Pakistan |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Description | silvery sericeous, very ramose, leaves pinnate, leaflets oblong or linear, acute, flowers few, minute, opposite, solitary, shortly pedicellate, pod narrow, linear |
Size | 10-20cm |
Color | |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring after hot water treatment, germ. 1-3 months cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Cytisus uniflorus Decne. Genista africana Briq. Genista uniflora (Decne.) Briq. |
Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (ALG Algeria, EGY Egypt, LBY Libya, MOR Morocco, TUN Tunisia) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (CYP Cyprus, LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai, TUR Turkey) 35 Arabian Peninsula (SAU Saudi Arabia) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan) |