The genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in Greece Author Brullo, Salvatore Author Erben, Matthias 1 Dipartimento di scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Sezione di Biologia vegetale, Università di Catania, via A. Longo 19, I- 95125 Catania, Italy; e-mail: salvo. brullo @ gmail. com 2 Department Biologie I der LMU München, Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, Menzinger Strasse 67, D- 80638 München, Germany; e-mail: m. erben @ lmu. de or m. erben @ t-online. de * authors for correspondence m.erben@lmu.de text Phytotaxa 2016 2016-01-05 240 1 448 450 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.240.1.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.240.1.1 1179-3163 13681606 7. Limonium cancellatum-dictyophorum group.―The species in this group are amphimictic. They are characterized by having green stems and leaves with smooth to rugose-striate (rarely verrucate) surfaces, which can be hairy or glabrous. The inflorescences are flexuous with numerous articulate, sterile branches. The spikelets are more or less curved, divaricate, and remotely arranged. The inner bracts are small ( 3–5 mm long). The species are diploid (2n = 18). Many of the species are distributed in the amphi-Adriatic countries (i.e., Croatia , Albania , Italy ). In Greece , they occur along the coastlines of the Ionian Islands ( L. cephalonicum , L. phitosianum , L. LIMONIUM (PLUMBAGINACEAE) Phytotaxa 240 (1) © 2016 Magnolia Press • 13 damboldtianum , L. arcuatum , L. antipaxorum , L. ithacense , L. saracinatum , L. zacynthium ) and the western Peloponnese ( L. messeniacum , L. pylium , L. coronense , L. kardamylii ).