Editing Retama (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The genus ''Retama'' was erected in 1838 by [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque]], the genus name being derived from Hebrew, from the [[Jewish Bible]]. Rafinesque noted that the genus had been included in other genera, including ''[[Spartium]]'', ''[[Cytisus]]'' and ''[[Genista]]'', but he regarded it as distinct.<ref name=Rafi38>{{Citation |last1=Rafinesque |first1=Constantine Samuel |date=1838 |contribution=82. ''Retama'' |title=Sylva Telluriana |page=22 |location=Philadelphia |access-date=2018-02-15 |contribution-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/404578 }}</ref>

The name ''Lygos'' was once used for ''Retama'';<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n2fHDGuqz6wC&pg=PA410 James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, ''The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-Of-Doors and Under Glass,''  Cambridge University Press, 2011,  p. 410].</ref><ref>[http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats/3510 European Environment Agency,  Thermo-mediterranean (''Lygos raetam'') brush]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=10IMFSavIMsC&pg=PA924 Hanelt P. & Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (eds.), Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops, Springer Verlag, Germany, 2001, p. 924]</ref> it is now a [[rejected name]] (''nomen rejiciendum'') in the [[International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants]].<ref>{{GRIN |mode=cs2|name=''Lygos'' Adans. |id=17320 |access-date=2018-02-13 }}</ref> [[Michel Adanson]] described and classified the genus referencing to the Greek plant  "lygos" and to [[Pedanius Dioscorides]].<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753002833132#page/320/mode/2up Adanson M. (1763) Familles des Plantes, Paris, vol. 2, pp. 321, 573.]  Note: In p. 573 the name is printed as “Lugos”.</ref> In the ancient Greek language, ''lygos'' (λύγος) was the name of the plant ''[[Vitex agnus-castus]]'' (chaste tree)<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*l%3Aentry+group%3D53%3Aentry%3Dlu%2Fgos Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'']</ref> or willow or other plants with pliant twigs.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JgHVAAAAMAAJ&q=lygos+genus ''Composition of scientific words: a manual of methods and a lexicon of materials for the practice of logotechnics''], [[Brown, Roland Wilbur]], Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979  p. 856.</ref> The same word (in some cases Latinized as ''Lygus'') was used in botany and zoology for various taxonomic groups as a component of names, e.g. ''Lygodysodea, Lygisyum, Lygistum, [[Lygodesmia]]'' etc.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hotPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA560 George Don, A general history of the Dichlamydeous plants,  London, 1834, vol. 3, p. 483, 560.]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?ei=9-zNT9ajA4SA8gOS88zyDA&id=JgHVAAAAMAAJ&dq=insect+lygos&q=lygus Brown, p. 485]: ''Lygus oblineatus'' (bug).</ref>

''Retama'' is traditionally placed in the tribe [[Genisteae]], and in the subfamily [[Papilionoideae]] in the 2017 classification of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae).