Spartium L.
Shrub, not armed. Lvs few, 1-foliolate, shortly petiolate; stipules 0. Infl. terminal, racemose; bracts and bracteoles small, deciduous. Calyx split above, with 5 short teeth. Corolla golden. Stamens connate into a closed tube; alternate anthers long and basifixed or short and versatile. Style incurved, glabrous; stigma terminal, slightly oblique. Pod 2-valved, ± straight, dehiscent, many-seeded; sutures slightly thickened; seeds estrophiolate.
1 sp., Mediterranean. Naturalised sp. 1.
