FRANKENIA CORYMBOSA

Family and Genus:- See- FRANKENIACEAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Frankenia (L) For John Frankenius (1590-1661), Swedish botanist.

Corymbosa (L) With flowers arranged in corymbs.

General description:- Perennial.

Stems:-

1) Up to 30 cm, erect or ascending, much-branched, woody at base, puberulent.

Leaves:-

1) 2-6 mm, sparsely or densely puberulent on both surfaces, farinose, margins

revolute.

Flowers:-

1) In dense terminal cymes.

2) Calyx, 2-3 mm, sparsely or densely puberulent more or less throughout, with

hairs c. 0·1 mm.

3) Petals, 4-6 mm, pale purplish.

Key features:-

1) Calyx, 2-3 mm, with hairs c. 0·1 mm.

2) Leaves, with a whitish crust or powdery covering.

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Habitat:- In supralittoral scrub on clayey saline loam. 5-30 m.

Distribution:- Rare in Greece known only from the small islands of Gavdopoula and

Koufonisi S of Crete. - A mainly N African species.

Flowering time:- Mar-May.

Photos by:- Kind permission of Saxifraga - Free Nature Images