3; see text Stauracanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

It includes three species of shrubs and suffrutices native to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and northwestern Africa (Algeria and Morocco).

They grow in Mediterranean-climate maquis (shrubland), woodland, heaths, and coastal scrub, on sandy or stony alluvium and coastal dunes.

It is sometimes treated as part of the genera Genista or Ulex.

Stauracanthus comprises the following species:[1][2][3] This Faboideae-related article is a stub.