Limonium gmelinii, (Willd.) 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 : 41

13. L. gmelinii (Willd.) O. Kuntze , Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891)

( Statice gmelinii Willd. ).

Plant 20-60 cm, glabrous. Leaves 7O-11O(-3OO) x 20-30(-60) mm, spathulate, indistinctly tuberculate, pinnately veined. Sterile branches few or absent; scales up to 25 mm. Spikes 0-6-1 cm, dense; spikelets l (-2)- flowered. Bracts densely tuberculate; inner bracts c. 3 mm, emarginate; outer bract hyaline except on the midrib, overlapping j-f of the inner. Calyx c. 4 mm, sparsely pubescent. Corolla 5-5- 5 mm, reddish. 2n = 18, 27, 36. Alkaline soils. E. C. & S.E. Europe. Bu Cz?Gr Hu Ju Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Tu.

L. hypanicum Klokov in Kotov & Barbarich, Fl. RSS Ucr. 8: 524 (1957), from S.W. Ukraine and Moldavia, with subsessile leaves and calyx-hairs up to 0- 3 mm, and L. hungaricum Klokov , op. cit. 525 (1957), from Hungary and Romania, with subsessile leaves and calyx-hairs 0-3-0-6 mm, are here included in 13. They have been separated from the remaining populations of 13, which have a subglabrous calyx-tube and a petiole as long as the lamina, but their status requires further examination.