Limonium diffusum, (Pourret) 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

6. L. diffusum (Pourret) O. Kuntze , loc. cit. (1891)

( Statice diffusa Pourret ).

Like 5 but with some leaves present at anthesis; flowering branches with flowers along their length; lower branches often entirely covered by regularly alternate scales, the scales scarious or silvery, muticous or mucronulate; spikes with more or less distant spikelets; inner bract c. 3 - 5 mm; outer bract c. 2 mm, acute, muticous; corolla pale violet. Maritime sands and salt-marshes. • 5. Portugal, S. W. Spain; S. France. Ga Hs Lu.