Limonium binervosum, (G. E. Sm.) Salmon

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 48

67. L. binervosum (G. E. Sm.) Salmon , Jour. Bot. (London) 45: 24 (1907)

( Statice occidentalis Lloyd , S. dodartii Girard ).

Plant 20-30 cm, glabrous, smooth. Leaves 40-55 x 8-12 mm, acute or obtuse, 1 - to 3-veined. Inflorescence pyramidal; non­ flowering branches absent, rarely the lower branches sterile; scales 7-10 mm. Spikes 2-2- 5 cm, straight, erect, dense, with 6-8 spikelets per cm; spikelets 1 - to 3-flowered. Inner bract 4- 5-5 mm; outer bract c. 2- 5 mm, overlapping of the inner. Calyx 5-5- 5 mm. Corolla c. 8 mm, violet-blue, with wide, imbricate petals. 2« = 34-36. Maritime cliffs and rocks. • W. Europe, northwards to S. W. Scotland. Br Ga Hb Hs Lu.

A smaller plant, with acute, 1 -veined leaves ( Statice legrandii Gaut. & Timb.-Lagr. ), from the Mediterranean coast of France, which has been referred here, seems closer to 60.