Anthyllis polycephala, Desf.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 179

9. A. polycephala Desf. , FI. Atl. 2: 150 (1798)

( A. podocephala Boiss. ).

Tall, more or less erect perennial up to 60 cm, woody below. Leaves evenly distributed along the stem, imparipinnate; leaflets 13-15 (often fewer in the uppermost leaves), narrowly elliptical, subequal, villous to hirsute above and beneath, without dilated sheathing leaf-bases. Heads arranged in a raceme, the lower pedunculate, the upper subsessile, dense. Calyx 6-9 mm, tubular-campanulate, hirsute, with long, plumose, awn-like teeth, the lowermost more or less equalling the tube. Corolla yellow; standard obovate-orbicular. 5. Spain. Hs.