Genista tinctoria L.

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Status: Accepted
Genus: Genista L.
Tribe: Cytiseae
References: [754]

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Other names:

• Genista alpestris Bertol. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista anxantica Ten. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista borysthenica Kotov [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista campestris Janka [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista donetzica Kotov [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista elata Wender. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista elatior Koch [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista humilis Ten. [Doubtful] [754]
  
• Genista hungarica A.Kerner [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista lasiocarpa Spach [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista mantica Pollini [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista marginata Besser [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista mayeri Janka [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista oligosperma Simonkai [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista ovata Waldst. & Kit [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista patula M.Bieb. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista perreymondii Lois. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista ptilophylla Spach [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista sibirica L. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista tanaitica Smirnow [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista tenuifolia Lois. [Synonym] [754]
  
• Genista virgata Willd. [Synonym] [754]
  

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Common Names:

• Dyer's Greenweed [1809] [2183] [2193] [2199] [548]
  
• Retama de Tintes [2190]
  
• Retama Tintorera [1140]
  

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Descriptors:

• Habit:
  • Shrub
• Lifespan:
  • Perennial
• Stems:
  • Not climbing
• Source(s):
  • 1988(Europe)ESFEDS
  • 1993 Bisby FA
• Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator:
  • 1991/1993 Cristofolini G & Feoli L
  • 2001-06 Cristofolini G
• Conservation Status:
  • Not Threatened

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Uses:

• Domestic [1862]
  
• Environmental [1140] [1862]
  
• Medicine [1862]
  

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Geographical Distribution:

• Asia [1861] [1862] [1867] [1869] [1872] [2015]
  • Afghanistan [1861] [1872]
  • Iran [1861] [1867] [1869]
  • Iraq [1862]
  • USSR [2015]

• Europe [754]
  • Albania [754]
  • Austria-F.E. [754]
  • Belgium-F.E. [754]
  • Bulgaria [754]
  • Czechoslovakia [754]
  • Denmark [754]
  • France-F.E. [754]
  • Germany [754]
  • Great Britain [754]
  • Greece [754]
  • Hungary [754]
  • Italy-F.E. [754]
  • Netherlands [754]
  • Norway [754]
  • Poland [754]
  • Romania [754]
  • Spain-F.E. [754]
  • Sweden [754]
  • Switzerland [754]
  • Turkey in Europe [754]
  • USSR:B-F.E. [754]
  • USSR:C-F.E. [754]
  • USSR:E-F.E. [754]
  • USSR:W-F.E. [754]
  • Yugoslavia [754]

• Middle East [454] [1869]
  • Lebanon-Syria [454]
  • Turkey in Asia [454] [1869]

• North America [1809]
  • Canada [1809]

• South America [1140]
  • Argentina [1140]

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Notes:

• Genista humilis Ten.: Synonym [07/30/93 09:34] [754]
  
• Indicator of the poverty of the land [1862]
  

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Last Update: 14/06/2001 14:27:10