Limonium creticum
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Limonium creticum is a species of the genus beach Lilac ( Limonium ).
features
Limonium creticum is a perennial subshrub that reaches heights of 20 to 45 centimeters. The stem and ears are curved, flexible and light green. The leaves measure 20 to 85 × 5 to 20 millimeters, are blunt or slightly prickly-pointed, obverse-shaped-spatulate, one to three-veined, leathery and suddenly narrow at the base into the stem. Your skin edge is narrow.
The inner bract is elliptical, two-tone, colored rust-brown in the middle, slightly skinned on the edge and 6.0 to 6.8 millimeters in size. The panicle is pyramidal. The ears show per centimeter 2 to 4 one-sided, one to three-flowered, rarely up to four-flowered spikelets . The calyx is (5.6) 6.0 to 6.2 millimeters in size and has thick hair on the ribs. The calyx lobes are blunt.
The flowering time is in June.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 51.
Systematics
Limonium creticum in 1989 (born in 1948) by the Greek botanist Rea Artelari described . A synonym is Limonium rigidum Alf.Mayer .
Occurrence
Limonium creticum is on Crete in the regional districts of Chania and Heraklion endemic . The species grows on limestone and sandstone rocks by the sea.
literature
- Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 , p. 228 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Limonium creticum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ A b c Salvatore Brullo, Matthias Erben: The genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in Greece. In: Phytotaxa. Volume 240, 2016, pp. 103-105, DOI: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.240.1.1 .