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Genista etnensis (Raf.) DC.

Fabaceae · Corse, Sardegna +1

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Summary

Genista aetnensis, the Mount Etna broom, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is a large shrub or small tree endemic to Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily where it is associated with sunny, open landscapes and poor, stony soil. It is a very common constituent of the garigue plant communities, Mediterranean shrubby vegetation, around the lower slopes of Mount Etna, hence its Latin specific epithet aetnensis.

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About the genus · Genista

Genista is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom, though the term may also refer to other genera, including Cytisus and Chamaecytisus. Brooms in other genera are sometimes considered synonymous with Genista: Echinospartum, Retama, Spartium, Stauracanthus, and Ulex.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Genista", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3973999 (Lugaion etnense (Biv.) Raf., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeCorse, Sardegna, Sicilia · introduced: Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, India · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3973999 (Lugaion etnense (Biv.) Raf.): Kew's file holds it as Lugaion etnense (Raf.) Raf. (synonym under Genista etnensis (Raf.) DC.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Pancrat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Robert Flogaus-Faust, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Genista 35 in the reference

Genista acanthoclada Genista acanthoclada Thorny Broom Photo: CC0, author not statedGenista albida Genista albida White Genista Photo: CC BY, RomanGenista anglica Genista anglica Petty whin Photo: CC0, author not statedGenista canariensis Genista canariensis Canary broom Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchanteGenista carinalis Genista carinalis Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizGenista cinerea Genista cinerea Ash-coloured Broom Photo: CC BY, Louis AuregliaGenista depressa Genista depressa Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Југ Genista dorycnifolia Fabaceae Genista falcata Genista falcata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Diego Rodríguez HernándezGenista florida Genista florida Floriferous Greenweed Photo: CC BY, Carminda SantosGenista germanica Genista germanica Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Николай СоболевGenista hirsuta Genista hirsuta Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Duarte Frade all 36 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Lugaion etnense; Spartium etnense; Dendrospartum etnense; Drymospartum etnense; Cytisanthus etnensis. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Raf.) DC.
Native to
Corse, Sardegna, Sicilia
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Genista etnensis (Raf.) DC. (plant_name_id 2819007), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 3973999, Lugaion etnense (Biv.) Raf. (Kew's file holds it as Lugaion etnense (Raf.) Raf. (synonym under Genista etnensis (Raf.) DC.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 495862-1, POWO 495862-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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