Limonium catalaunicum

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 : 43

28. L. catalaunicum (Willk. & Costa) Pignatti, Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 6: 300 (1962).

Stems glabrous, smooth. Leaves 30-65 x 5-17 mm, oblanceolate-spathulate, usually withered or absent at anthesis. Inflorescence 20-60 cm, usually hemispherical, the branches with long, divaricate segments; non-flowering branches numerous. Spikes 2-6(-12)cm, very lax, with 1-3 spikelets per cm; spikelets 1 - to 3-flowered. Bracts with narrow hyaline margin; inner bract 2-5-3(-4) mm, obtuse, the midrib excurrent into a conspicuous point; outer bract c. 0- 3 mm. Calyx 5-6 mm, exceeding the inner bract by 2-3 mm; tube as long as the limb. Corolla c. 8-5 mm. Saline and gypsaceous soils. • N.E. Spain (Ebro basin). Hs. 1 Spikeletsl(-2)-flowered (b) subsp. procerum

1 Spikelets 2- to 3-flowered

2 Inflorescence 20-40cm; leavesnot morethan40 x 5 -8mm (a) subsp. catalaunicum

2 Inflorescence40-60cm; leaves50-65 x 14-17 mm (c) subsp. viciosoi