SPECIES DESCRIPTION
LIMONIUM OCYMIFOLIUM
Family and Genus:- See- PLUMBAGINACEAE
Common Names:- None
Homotypic Synonyms:- Statice ocymifolia.
Meaning:- Limonium (Gr) Meadow-plant. A name used by the Greek physician
and botanist Dioscorides.
Ocymifolium (L) With leaves resembling Ocimum
General description:- Perennial with a branched woody stock, forming medium-
sized tufts.
Stems:-
1) 10-40 cm, slender, flexuous to suberect, sterile branches 0-3.
Leaves:-
1) Basal, numerous, usually 20-60 x 6-15 mm, spathulate, rounded and shortly
mucronate at the apex, 1-veined, Greyish-green and somewhat coriaceous.
Flowers:-
1) Spikes, lax.
a) spikelets, 5.5-7.5 mm, 2-5-flowered.
2) Bract:
a) inner, 4.0-5.5 mm, firmly enclosing the flower, rusty-brown with a white
membranous margin. glabrous.
3) Calyx, 4.5-6.0 mm, pilose only at the tube.
4) Corolla, 6.5-7.5 mm, pale violet to bluish.
Habitat:- Rocky shores and coastal flats, mainly on limestone, occasionally on
rocky slopes with dry open shrubby vegetation up to 200 m.
Distribution:- An Aegean species with only a few records just W of the Aegean
area;probably extending also to coasta areas in W Anatolia.
Flowering time:- Mainly May-July.
Photos by:- A. N. Other
