Genista dorycnifolia Font Quer subsp. dorycnifolia

Spice Flower Fruit In the field

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Genista

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean (Balearic)

IUCN Category: NTNear threatened

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Nanophanerophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Garriques, torrents and road sides.

Characteristics: Genista dorycnifolia is an endemism exclusive to the island of Eivissa, occupying the garrigues (Mediterranean woodland) in the north-western part of the island. Its upper branches are elongated, green and erect, with leaves divided into elongated leaflets. It can be distinguished from Chronanthus biflorus, because the latter has square-sectioned stalks and the flowers are grouped in pairs. The subspecies dorycnifolia is the most abundant, the subspecies grosii has also been described living in the Amunts; but both the plant and the inflorescence are more compact.