Stauracanthus

Stauracanthus
Stauracanthus boivinii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Genisteae
Genus: Stauracanthus
Link (1807)
Species

3; see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Leonhardia Opiz (1857), nom. superfl.
  • Nepa Webb (1852)

Stauracanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes three species of shrubs and suffrutices native to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and northwestern Africa (Algeria and Morocco). They grow in Mediterranean-climate maquis (shrubland), woodland, heaths, and coastal scrub, on sandy or stony alluvium and coastal dunes.[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae. It is sometimes treated as part of the genera Genista or Ulex.

  1. ^ a b Stauracanthus Link. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 September 2023.