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Cytisus is a genus of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the legume family, Fabaceae

Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...

. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae

Faboideae

Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. One acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae....

Selected species

Cytisus arboreus (Desf.) DC.
Cytisus ardoini E.Fourn.
Cytisus baeticus (Webb) Steud.
Cytisus balansae (Boiss.) Ball
Cytisus cantabricus (Willk.) Rchb.f.
Cytisus commutatus (Willk.) Briq.
Cytisus decumbens (Durande) Spach
Cytisus filipes Webb & Berthel.
Cytisus galianoi Talavera & P.E.Gibbs
Cytisus glabratus Link
Cytisus grandiflorus DC.
Cytisus multiflorus
Cytisus multiflorus
Cytisus multiflorus is a species of legume known by the common name white Spanish broom.-Distribution:It is native to the Iberian Peninsula...

(L'Hér.) Sweet
Cytisus nigricans L.
Cytisus oromediterraneus Rivas Mart. et al.
Cytisus scoparius
Cytisus scoparius
Cytisus scoparius, the Common Broom and Scotch Broom, syn. Sarothamnus scoparius, is a perennial leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe,....

(L.) Link
Cytisus striatus
Cytisus striatus
Cytisus striatus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Portuguese broom. This plant is native to the Iberian Peninsula.-Description:...

(Hill) Rothm.
Cytisus supranubius (L.f.) Kuntze
Cytisus valdesii Talavera & P.E.Gibbs
Cytisus villosus Pourr.
Cytisus virescens Wohlf.

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