Limonium duriusculum

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

59. L. duriusculum (Girard) Fourr. , Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon nov. ser., 17: 141 (1869)

( Statice duriuscula Girard ).

Sometimes annual, 20-30 cm, glabrous, smooth. Leaves 30-40 x 5-9 mm, oblanceolate-spathulate, obtuse to truncate, l (-3)-veined. Inflorescence with the lower 1-5 branches usually sterile; nonflowering branches absent; scales 2-4 mm. Spikes 2-3(-6) cm, with 2-3(^4) spikelets per cm; spikelets 1- to 3-flowered, incurved. Inner bract 4-5-5 mm, smooth; outer bract overlapping i of the inner. Calyx (4-5-)5-5-6 mm; limb 1j times as long as the tube; teeth becoming uncinate in fruit. Saline soils and maritime rocks. • W. Mediterranean region. BI Ga Hs?It Sa?Si. A very critical species, resembling 56 in its incurved inner bract enclosing the calyx, but of similar habit to 87, which is smaller and always annual, and to 28, which is taller and always perennial.