Limonium bocconei, (Lojac.) Litard.

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 : 44

39. L. bocconei (Lojac.) Litard. in Briq., Prodr. FI. Corse 3(2): 16 (1955)

( Statice cordata sensu Guss. , non L.).

Plant (10-)20-40 cm. Leaves 20-50 x 5-10 mm, obtuse or emarginate. Inflorescence-segments up to 2 cm, rigid, usually arcuate and very fragile , smooth, dark when dry. Spikes 1-5^4 cm, lax, with 4 spikelets per cm; spikelets 1-flowered. Inner bract 3-5-4 mm; outer bract c. 1-5 mm. Calyx 4-5 mm; limb j as long as the tube. Maritime cliffs. • N. W. Sicilia, Isole Egadi. Si. Plants with larger spikelets, having the inner bract 4-5-5 mm and the calyx c. 6 mm, occur near Trapani and were described as Statice ambigua Lojac. , FZ. Sic. 2(2): 26 (1907) (S. ponzoi Fiori); they may be intermediate between 39 and 55.