Petteria

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Petteria
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Genisteae
Genus: Petteria
C.Presl (1845)
Species:
P. ramentacea
Binomial name
Petteria ramentacea
(Sieber) C.Presl (1845)
Synonyms [2]
  • Cytisus fragransWelden (1832), nom. illeg.
  • Cytisus ramentaceusSieber (1822)
  • Cytisus weldeniiVis. (1830)
  • Genista ramentacea(Sieber) Briq. (1894)
  • Genista weldenianaScheele (1843)
  • Laburnum fragransGriseb. (1843)
  • Laburnum nubigenumJ.Presl (1830)
  • Laburnum ramentaceum(Sieber) K.Koch (1869)
  • Laburnum weldeniiGriseb. ex Lavallée (1877)

Petteria ramentacea, commonly known as Dalmatian laburnum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a deciduous shrub native to the western Balkan Peninsula, including Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. [2] [1] It grows up to 3 meters tall, and flowers in May. It grow in shrubland and scrub from 10 to 700 meters elevation, in both sub-Mediterranean and Mediterranean habitats. [1] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. [3] It is the only member of the genus Petteria. [4] [5] [6]

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References

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