Ebenus L.

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 : 191

72. Ebenus L. 1

Perennial herbs or small shrubs. Leaves 3-foliolate or imparipinnate; stipules connate, scarious, divided at the apex. Flowers in axillary heads or racemes, subtended by scarious bracts. Calyx tubular-campanulate, with 5 equal teeth; corolla pink or purple; keel obtuse, obliquely truncate; stamens usually monadelphous. Legume included in the calyx, indéhiscent, compressed. Seeds 1-2.

Small shrub; stipules bifid at apex; flowers in dense racemes 1. eretica Herb , woody at base; stipules 3- to 4-fid at apex; flowers in heads

2. sibthorpii