LIMONIUM ECHIOIDES

Family and Genus:- See- PLUMBAGINACEAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Statice echioides, Taxanthema echioides.

Meaning:- Limonium (Gr) Meadow-plant. A name used by the Greek physician

and botanist Dioscorides.

Echioides (L) Resembling echium.

General description:- Annual with slender taproot.

Stems:-

1) Slender, moderately branched, with the cauline leaves reduced to ± scarious

scales.

Leaves:-

1) Usually 2-5 cm.

2) Basal, in a flat rosette, narrowly obovate to spathulate-oblanceolate, obtuse,

rather thin. dark green, glaucous or reddish. often glandular-tuberculate.

Flowers:-

1) Inflorescence, with long, lax spikes of 1- or 2-flowered spikelets.

2) Inner bracts, tuberculate, strongly involute.

3) Calyx teeth, of the midrib extended into an uncinate awn.

4) Corolla, pink or pale lilac.

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Habitat:- Sandy and rocky maritime habitats, occasionally along roads and in dry

open shrubby vegetation some distance inland up to 300 m.

Distribution:- In Greece almost restricted to the Aegean area. - Widespread in the

Mediterranean region from S France to Cyprus. Sparsely scattered on Crete.

Flowering time:- April-June.

Photos by:- Christopher Cheiladakis