Limonium vestitum (C.E.Salmon) C.E. Salmon (1924: 62)

Bogdanović, Sandro & Brullo, Salvatore, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Limonium cancellatum group (Plumbaginaceae) in Croatia, Phytotaxa 215 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

25. Limonium vestitum (C.E.Salmon) C.E. Salmon (1924: 62)

Bas.: Statice vestita C.E. Salmon (1923: 97) .

Type: — CROATIA. Central Dalmatia: Scoglio Kamik westl. von Lissa. 5 June 1911, Ginzberger & Teyber s.n. (lectotype WU!, designated by Mitić et al. 2003) ( Figs. 26 , 55 ) .

Description: —Plant perennial, pulvinate, 6–25 cm tall, densely pubescent (hairs up to 0.1 mm long), with robust tap-root. Caudices branched, 3–10 cm long, densely covered by leaves. Leaves rigid, rugose, patent, pubescent, green, 8–21 mm long, 3–8 mm wide, spathulate, revolute at the margin, 1-nerved, gradually tapering into a short petiole, rounded at the apex. Stems numerous, prostrate to ascending, rugose, with a few sterile branches, flexuous, fragile at nodes, very branched, diverging at the angle of 60–140°, internodes 2–10 mm long, right to curved. Inflorescence densely reticulate, branched from the base; spikes 10–40 mm long, straight to slightly curved. Spikelets 5.8–6 mm long, 1–2 flowered, 6–8 per cm; outer bract 1.7–2.1 mm long, 1.5–1.8 mm wide, ovate, subobtuse, totally hairy, margin narrowly membranous, and central part fleshy, long acuminate; middle bract 1.8–2 mm long, 1.2–1.3 mm wide, oblong, bifid at the apex, membranous, totally hairy; inner bract 3.3–3.9 mm long, 2.3–2.8 mm wide, ovate, acuminate, with margin membranous, glabrous, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, and central part fleshy, densely hairy, 2–2.1 mm wide, acuminate, forming a triangular tip, 1–1.2 mm long, reaching the upper margin. Calyx 5–5.4 mm long, exserted 2.5–3 mm from the inner bract, tube and ribs densely hairy, ribs reaching the middle part of the lobes; calyx lobes 1–1.1 × 0.8–0.9 mm, hemielliptical, cuspidate. Corolla lilac.

Etymology: —The epithet is referred to latin “vestitum ” namely clothed, because this plant is covered by hairs.

Distribution and ecology: —This species is localized on the Kamik islet in Svetac archipelago (central Dalmatia) ( Fig. 29J ). It colonizes the calcareous step slopes together with other halophytes.

Additional specimens examined: — CROATIA. Central Dalmatia: Scoglio Kamik westl. von Lissa. 5 June 1911, Ginzberger & Teyber s.n. (W!); Scoglio Kamik westl. v. Lissa: In angefüllten Vertiefungen. 25 July 1914, Ginzberger s.n. ( WU!) ; Školj Kamik , 7 June 1964, TrinajstiĆ 6761 ( ZA!) ; Isola di Kamik, a ovest di St. Andrea (Svetac) Dalmazia centrale, 27 May 2005, BogdanoviĆ s.n. ( CAT!, ZAGR!) .

Figures

FIGURE 26. Limonium vestitum. A. Inflorescence branches. B. Spikelets. C. Outer bracts. D. Middle bracts. E. Inner bracts (dorsal view). G. Calyces. H. Calyx lobes. I. Leaves. J. Leaf indumentum (adaxial face). K. Leaf indumentum (abaxial face) (Illustration by Salvatore Brullo based on Bogdanović s.n.. CAT).

FIGURE 29. Geographical distribution of Limonium milovicii (A). L. omissae (B). L. velutinum (C). L. pharosianum (D). L. subanfractum (E). L. issaeum (F). L. busianum (G). L. brusnicense (H). L. zankii (I). L. vestitum (J). L. pomoense (K). L. cazzae (L). L. lagostanum (M) and L. pelagosae (N).

FIGURE 55. Habit of Limonium vestitum from Kamik. Bogdanović s.n. (CAT).