Limonium calcarae, (Tod. ex Janka) Pignatti

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 43

27. L. calcarae (Tod. ex Janka) Pignatti , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 64: 364 (1971)

( Statice calcarae Tod. ex Janka ).

Plant 20-30 cm; stems rough, greyish-pubescent. Leaves c. 25 x c. 4 mm, linearspathulate, acute, usually withered in summer; sheaths reddishbrown. Inflorescence with branches diverging at an angle of 90°-120°; non-flowering branches numerous. Lateral spikes rudimentary, the terminal 5-6 cm, with 3 spikelets per cm; spikelets 2- to 3-flowered. Bracts with narrow hyaline margin; inner bract 3-5-4 mm; outer bract overlapping | of the inner. Calyx c. 5 - 5 mm; limb as long as the tube. Gypsaceous soils. • C. Sicilia (near Caltanissetta). Si.