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Genus Dorycnium Mill.
Род 442 (20). ЗВЕЗДИЧЕ — DORYCNIUM MILL.¹
Mill., Gard. Diet. Abridg. ed. 4 (1754) 1;
Vill., Hist. Pl. Dauph. II (1789) 416; Rikli, Bot. Jahrb. XXXI (1901) 315

Fam: Asteraceae (Compositae)
Genus: Dorycnium Mill.
English Name: Prostrate Canary clover and Badassi

Description:

Small shrubs, semi-shrubs or perennial herbaceous plants, usually fibrous, without thorns. The branches are more or less round. Leaves with 5 (4) entire leaflets, the lower two attached to the stem, resembling stipules. Stipules small, membranous, free, permanent or absent. Flowers 3 to many, gathered in apical glabrous inflorescences. Calyx bell-shaped to tubular, regular or bilobed; teeth shorter, straight or longer than the tube. Corolla white (often the little boat dark red or black), irregular, lobed. Stamens 9 + 1, fused; anthers identical. The ovary is bare. The bean is ovoid to cylindrical, its cross section elliptical or round, one to many-seeded, naked, cracked. Seeds ovoid globular or lenticular, smooth, without appendage. Insect-pollinated, propagated by seeds.

Economic significance. Honey.

Table for determination of the species

1   Leaf axis 1.0 - 2.0 (3.0 - 5.0) mm long. Leaves up to 15.0 mm wide. Calyx teeth identical ........................... 1. - D graecum (L.) Ser.
1* Leaves without axis. Leaves attached at one point, up to 6.0 mm wide. Calyx teeth unequal .............................................................. 2
2   Inflorescence of 12 - 25 (30) flowers. Flower petioles equal to or longer than the calyx. The leaves on top are usually with spread curly or straight hairs or bare ..................................................................................................................................................... 2. - D. herbaceum ViII.
2* Inflorescence of 3 - 6 (14) blossoms. Flower stalks shorter or equal to the calyx. Leaves on top with close-fitting short hairs ................. ........................................................................................................................................................ 3. - D. germanicum (Gremli) Rouy.
¹ Developed by B. Kuzmanov.
From:    „Флора на Н. Р. България”, том VI, БАН, София, (1976)

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Dorycnium is a formerly recognized genus in the pea family, found in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands. It was described by Philip Miller in 1754 in the fourth edition of The Gardeners Dictionary.[1] It is now considered a synonym of Lotus.[2][3][4]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dorycnium

The genus Dorycnium is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

www.theplantlist.org › browse › Leguminosae › Doryc...

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Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
Distribution:

References: „Флора на Н. Р. България”, том VI, БАН, София, (1976), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, www.theplantlist.org › browse › Leguminosae › Doryc...

SPECIES:

Dorycnium herbaceum Vill. - no common name found

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