''Adenocarpus'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
s in the family
Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily
Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.
This subfamily is widely ...
. The plants are
broom-like shrubs with bright yellow flowers. The genus is native to
Macaronesia
Macaronesia (Portuguese: ''Macaronésia,'' Spanish: ''Macaronesia'') is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic, off the coasts of Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands ...
, Portugal and southern Spain, and three species are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to the western
Canary islands
The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Mo ...
where they are known by the common name Codeso.
Species
''Adenocarpus'' comprises the following species:
* ''
Adenocarpus anagyrifolius''
Coss. & Balansa
* ''
Adenocarpus artemisiifolius''
Jahand. ''et al''.
* ''
Adenocarpus bacquei''
Batt. & Pit.
* ''
Adenocarpus battandieri''
(Maire) Talavera
* ''
Adenocarpus boudyi''
Batt. & Maire
* ''
Adenocarpus cincinnatus''
(Ball) Maire
* ''
Adenocarpus complicatus
''Adenocarpus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. The plants are broom-like shrubs with bright yellow flowers. The genus is native to Macaronesia, Portugal and southern Spain, and th ...
''
(L.) Gay
** subsp. ''bracteatus''
(Font Quer & Pau) Talavera & P. E. Gibbs
** subsp. ''complicatus''
(L.) Gay
** subsp. ''nainii''
(Maire) P. E. Gibbs
* ''
Adenocarpus decorticans''
Boiss.
* ''
Adenocarpus faurei''
Maire
* ''
Adenocarpus foliolosus
''Adenocarpus foliolosus'', known locally as ''codeso'' and commonly known as Canary Island flatpod is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, that is endemic to Canary Islands where it can be fou ...
''
(Aiton) DC.
* ''
Adenocarpus hispanicus
''Adenocarpus hispanicus'' is a species of flowering plant in the Faboideae subfamily that is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: ...
''
(Lam.) DC.
* ''
Adenocarpus mannii''
(Hook. f.) Hook. f.
* ''
Adenocarpus ombriosus''
Ceballo & Ortuno
* ''
Adenocarpus telonensis''
(Loisel.) DC.
* ''
Adenocarpus umbellatus''
Batt.
* ''
Adenocarpus viscosus
''Adenocarpus viscosus'' is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is endemic to the Canary Islands where it is known locally as Codeso del Pico. It can be found above on two of the islands, ...
''
(Willd.) Webb & Berthel.
Species names with uncertain taxonomic status
The status of the following species is unresolved:
* ''Adenocarpus aureus''
(Cav.) Pau
* ''Adenocarpus bivonii''
(C.Presl) C.Presl
* ''Adenocarpus brutius''
Brullo & De Marco & Siracusa
* ''Adenocarpus complicatus''
J. Gay
* ''Adenocarpus desertorum''
Castrov.
* ''Adenocarpus divaricatus''
Sweet
* ''Adenocarpus divaricatus''
(L'Hér.) Boiss.
* ''Adenocarpus lainzii''
(Castrov.) Castrov.
* ''Adenocarpus rodriguezi''
Sennen & Mauricio
* ''Adenocarpus samniticus''
Brullo & De Marco & Siracusa
* ''Adenocarpus subdecorticans''
Humbert & Maire
* ''Adenocarpus tenoreanus''
Brullo, Gangale & Uzunov
* ''Adenocarpus vallisoletanus''
Sennen & Pau
References
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Genisteae
Fabaceae genera
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