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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Limonium cylindrifolium (Forsk.) Verdc. ex Cufod.
Nomencalture
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Family: PlumbaginaceaeGenus: Limonium
Species:
Limonium cylindrifolium (Forsk.) Verdc. ex Cufod.
SUMMARY
♦ Limonium cylindrifolium (Forssk.)Verdc., Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891).
Synonyms : Statice cylindrifolium Forss
Perennial herb, erect, up to 40 cm tall. Leaves sessile, fleshy, narrowly cylindrical, 2-5 cm long, apex mucronate, glabrous. Flowers in few flowered cymes, densely arranged in one sided spikes forming racemes. Bracts dull red. Calyx tube 2 mm long, glabrous. Corolla deep red or purple, projecting beyond calyx, crumpled within the calyx after flowering. Stamens exserted. Styles 5, stigma filiform.
Specimen examined: Farasan Island, 20-11-1971 (KSU), M. Muslim