Limonium graecum, (Poiret) Rech. fil.

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 : 46

55. L. graecum (Poiret) Rech. fil. , Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Nat. Kl. (Wien) 105(1): 427 (1943).

Plant 10-35 cm, glabrous, usually rough. Leaves 20-40 x 4-12 mm, linearlanceolate to obovate-spathulate, 1 -veined, usually on long woody basal branches. Inflorescence usually with numerous nonflowering branches; segments 1-2 cm, more than 0-7 mm in diameter; scales 3-4 mm. Spikes 3-5(-8) cm, with 1-3 spikelets per cm; spikelets 1 - to 5-flowered, straight, cylindrical. Inner bract 5 -5-6(-8) mm, obtuse, rounded dorsally, usually tuberculate, with reddish-brown margin, sometimes hyaline near apex, dark when dry, forming a wide, subpatent envelope around the flowers; outer bract l-5-2- 5(-3) mm, overlapping of the inner. Calyx 6-7 mm, narrowly conical after pollination; tube straight; limb | as long as the tube. Corolla 7-8 mm. Maritime rocks and sands. Mediterranean region, mainly in the islands. BI Co Cr Gr Sa Si. (W. Asia.)