SPECIES DESCRIPTION
LIMONIUM FREDERICI
Family and Genus:- See- PLUMBAGINACEAE
Common Names:- None
Homotypic Synonyms:- Statice frederici
Meaning:- Limonium (Gr) Meadow-plant. A name used by the Greek physician
and botanist Dioscorides.
Frederici (L) Dedicated to the grandson of Edmond Boissier, Frédéric
Barbey, who seems to want to devote himself to the collections of his beloved
grandfather
General description:- Perennial with a rather laxly branched woody stock.
Stems:-
1) 10-30 cm. slender, erec, sparingly branched in the upper half, without sterile
branches.
Leaves:-
1) Usually 20-40 x 8-15 mm, in basal rosettes or sometimes scattered along the
caudex, broadly spathulate, flat or canaliculate, truncate or usually emarginate
at the apex. coriaceous, glaucous. with 1-3 indistinct veins.
Flowers:-
1) Spikes, slender, with 1-2 erect spikelets per cm.
a) spikelets, c. 9 mm, 2-flowered.
2) Calyx, c. 7 mm, sparsely short-pubescent below.
a) lobes, triangular, ± emarginate.
3) Corolla, 9-2 mm, pink.
Habitat:- Usually grows on the cliffs near the sea, but can also be found in
localities distant from the sea or sometimes along the rocky coast, but always on
limestone. up to 200 m.
Distribution:- Endemic to Cyclades, Karpathos and Crete.
Flowering time:- Late April to July.
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