Cytisus, the Glossary
Cytisus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to open sites (typically scrub and heathland) in Europe, western Asia and North Africa.[1]
Table of Contents
24 relations: Award of Garden Merit, Calicotome, Chamaecytisus, Cultivar, Cytisus × praecox, Cytisus multiflorus, Cytisus nigricans, Cytisus oromediterraneus, Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus striatus, Cytisus supranubius, Family (biology), Flowering plant, Genisteae, Genus, Heath, Kew, Native species, Plants of the World Online, René Louiche Desfontaines, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Horticultural Society, Shrubland, Subfamily.
- Taxa named by René Louiche Desfontaines
Award of Garden Merit
The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
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Calicotome
Calicotome is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Cytisus and Calicotome are Fabaceae genera.
Chamaecytisus
Chamaecytisus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Cytisus and Chamaecytisus are Fabaceae genera and Palearctic flora.
Cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.
Cytisus × praecox
Cytisus × praecox, the Warminster broom, is an artificial hybrid species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
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Cytisus multiflorus
Cytisus multiflorus is a species of legume known by the common names white broom, white spanishbroom and Portuguese broom.
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Cytisus nigricans
Cytisus nigricans, the black broom, is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Faboideae of the family Fabaceae.
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Cytisus oromediterraneus
Cytisus oromediterraneus, the Pyrenean broom, is a shrub species that belongs to the family Fabaceae.
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Cytisus scoparius
Cytisus scoparius (syn. Sarothamnus scoparius), the common broom or Scotch broom, is a deciduous leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe.
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Cytisus striatus
Cytisus striatus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names hairy-fruited broom and Portuguese broom.
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Cytisus supranubius
Cytisus supranubius (also known as white-flowered broom or retama del Teide) is a species of broom endemic to the Canary Islands.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Genisteae
Genisteae is a tribe of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the subfamily Faboideae of the family Fabaceae.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Heath
A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.
Kew
Kew is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
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Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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René Louiche Desfontaines
René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.
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Shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
See also
Taxa named by René Louiche Desfontaines
- Alectryon oleifolius
- Asteranthos
- Black-winged kite
- Chamelaucium
- Chamelaucium ciliatum
- Chardinia
- Codonocarpus cotinifolius
- Common bulbul
- Common buttonquail
- Condylocarpon
- Condylocarpon guyanense
- Copaifera langsdorffii
- Cytisus
- Diplolaena dampieri
- Diplolaena grandiflora
- Durum wheat
- Ephedra altissima
- Ephedra fragilis
- Eucalyptus pulchella
- Fulvous babbler
- Funtumia
- Gleditsia caspica
- Greater hoopoe-lark
- Gymnarrhena
- Gyrostemon
- Gyrostemon ramulosus
- Heterostemon
- Lantana achyranthifolia
- Maianthemum canadense
- Melilotus sulcatus
- Micrantheum
- Micrantheum ericoides
- Ophrys ferrum-equinum
- Ophrys umbilicata
- Orchis patens
- Phalaris coerulescens
- Pogostemon
- Rhanterium
- Ricinocarpos
- Salvia algeriensis
- Solanum glaucophyllum
- Stylobasium
- Stylobasium spathulatum
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisus
Also known as Chronanthus, Citisis, Citisus, Corothamnus, Cytisis, Cytisogenista, Sarothamnus, Spartocytisus, Verzinum.