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Limonium axillare (Forsk.) O. Kuntze
Nomencalture
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Family: PlumbaginaceaeGenus: Limonium
Species:
Limonium axillare (Forsk.) O. Kuntze
SUMMARY
♦ Limonium axillare (Forssk.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891).
Undershrub, erect, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves fleshy, grey green, alternate, minutely punctate and white dotted, oblanceolate to oblanceolate-spathulate, 4-6x0.4-0.8 cm, with rounded to subacute apex, long tapering to base, glabrous. Inflorescence a panicle of one sided spikes bearing few-flowered cymes. Flowers purple or violet, bracts reddish, white margined. Calyx 3 mm long, plicate, shallowly lobed, limb white. Corolla purplish red. Stamens 5; styles. 5, filiform, 4-5 mm long.
Specimen examined: Farasan Islands, 12-3-1417-H, 3161 (KSU), R.A. Basehi, Ash Shuqaiq, 26-1-2002, 20290 (KSU), T. Al-Turki & J. Thomas.