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Emerus major - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 4/2010 © Jörn Germer

Emerus major - Flowers, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flowers, side view; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 4/2010 © Jörn Germer

Emerus major - Back of flower - Click to enlarge!

Back of flower; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 4/2010 © Jörn Germer

Emerus major - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 4/2010 © Jörn Germer

Emerus major - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 4/2010 © Jörn Germer

Emerus major - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 4/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1253
Date of entry: 12.04.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Scorpion Senna

German: Strauchkornwicke, Strauchwicke

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2605)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2502)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2117)

      Order: Fabales (238)

        Family: Fabaceae (238)(family description)

          Genus: Emerus (1)

            Epithet: major Mill. (3)

Synonyms: Coronilla emerus L., Hippocrepis emerus (L.) Lassen

emerus => domesticated, cultivated

major => larger than the type

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: yellow

External links

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