Editing Laburnum (section)

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| image = Laburnum_anagyroides2.jpg
| image_caption = Common laburnum – flowers
| taxon = Laburnum
| authority = [[Philipp Conrad Fabricius|Fabr.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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'''''Laburnum''''', sometimes called '''golden chain''' or '''golden rain''', is a genus of two species of small [[tree]]s in the subfamily [[Faboideae]] of the pea family [[Fabaceae]]. The species are ''[[Laburnum anagyroides]]''—'''common laburnum''' and ''[[Laburnum alpinum]]''—'''alpine laburnum'''. They are native to the mountains of southern [[Europe]] from [[France]] to the [[Balkans]].

Some botanists include a third species, ''Laburnum caramanicum'', but this native of southeast Europe and [[Anatolia]] is usually treated in a distinct genus ''[[Podocytisus]]'', more closely allied to the ''[[Genisteae]]'' (brooms).