Limonium furfuraceum, (Lag.) O. Kuntze

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 : 42

24. L. furfuraceum (Lag.) O. Kuntze , Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891)

( Statice furfuracea Lag. ).

Plant 18-25 cm, whitishpubescent. Leaves 20-26 x 4-6 mm, usually withered at anthesis. Inflorescence hemispherical, with patent to deflexed branches; non-flowering branches present. Spikes 2-3 cm, the terminal up to 4-5 cm, often scorpioid or divaricate, with 2-4 spikelets per cm; spikelets 2-flowered, erecto-patent. Bracts with narrow hyaline margin; inner bract c. 4-5 mm; outer bract overlapping I of the inner. Calyx c. 4-5 mm; limb £ as long as the tube. Corolla 6-7 mm, pale violet. 2« =18. Calcareous maritime cliffs. • S.E. Spain (Alicante prov.). Hs.