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Genista linifolia L.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Flaxleaf Broom

Genista linifolia L. APNI*

Synonyms: Teline linifolia (L.) Webb & Berthel. APNI*

Description: Erect to spreading shrub to c. 3 m high; stems appressed-pubescent.

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm long, 0.5–4.5 mm wide, dark green and glabrescent above, paler and appressed-pubescent below; apex mucronate; petiole ± absent; stipules absent.

Flowers 3–16, in terminal racemes; pedicels 2–4 mm long; bracts and bracteoles mostly linear, 3–4 mm long. Calyx 6–9 mm long. Corolla yellow, 10–15 mm long.

Pod narrow-oblong, 13–30 mm long, ± terete, densely hairy; seeds 2–4, brownish, ± globose, c. 3 mm long, aril orange.


Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized. Native of Medit.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *W.A. *S.A.
AVH map***

Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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