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Cytisus multiflorus (L'Hér.) Sweet

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cytisus*	L.	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Spartium multiflorum*	L'Hér.	basionym
*Spartium multiflorum*	L'Hér.	homotypic synonym
*Cytisus albus*	(Lam.) Link	synonym
*Cytisus lusitanicus*	Willk.	synonym
*Genista alba*	Lam.	synonym
*Genista madagascariensis*	Baker	synonym
*Spartium multiflorum*	L'Hér.	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Portuguese Broom; White Spanish Broom sources: Hickman, J. C. (ed.) - The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants Of California. 1400pp. 1993.;Polunin, O. - Trees And Bushes Of Europe. Oxford Univ. Press 1976.

Galician: codeso branco; marihuela; piorno branco; xesta; xesta blanca; xesta blancal; xesta branca; xesteira sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: erva branca; giesta branca; giesteira branca; giesteira-branca; giestra-branca sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: escoba albar; escoba de flor blanca; genista blanca; marihuela sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

unknown: Escoba Blanca

Literature

nomenclatural reference	Sweet, Hort. Brit. 1826.

Genbank

Citation

ILDIS World Database of Legumes 2010. (copyright © ILDIS). Cytisus multiflorus (L'Hér.) Sweet. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=F3FC71DB-6B7B-43A0-BAA7-5804295E6400

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Importance

EU Habitat Directive:
annex II EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.