Armeria splendens, (Lag. & Rodr.) Webb

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 : 36

31. A. splendens (Lag. & Rodr.) Webb , Iter Hisp. 18 (1838).

Dwarf shrub; stock with many short branches. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, muticous, usually glabrous, with narrow scarious margins, flat. Sheath 3-11 mm. Involucral bracts with wide scarious margins; outer much shorter than the inner, ovate-acuminate or suborbicular, muticous or mucronulate; inner muticous or mucronulate. Spikelets usually sessile or subsessile; bract as long as calyx. Calyx-tube pubescent or hirsute on ribs only; awns 0-5-0- 8 mm. Corolla bright purplish. Mountain pastures and rock-crevices; calcifuge. • N, W. & S. Spain. Hs.