Limonium auriculae-ursifolium, (Pourret) Druce

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 : 48

72. L. auriculae-ursifolium (Pourret) Druce , Brit. Pl. List ed. 2, 77 (1928)

( Statice lychnidifolia Girard ).

Plant 20-40 cm, glabrous, smooth. Leaves 25-100 x 9-20 mm, oblanceolate- spathulate, usually acute, mucronate, 3- to 7-veined, glaucous, often with resinous secretions at the base. Inflorescence pyramidal; non-flowering branches absent; scales up to 7 mm. Spikes 1 -2- 5 cm, with 5-12 spikelets per cm; spikelets 2- to 6- flowered. Inner bract c. 4- 5 mm; outer bract 1 -5-2-5 mm, overlapping J-j of the inner. Calyx 5-5- 5 mm, the teeth as long as wide. Corolla 7-8 mm, violet-blue. 2n = 25, 26. Maritime cliffs and salt-marshes. France, Iberian peninsula and Islas Baléares. BI Ga Hs Lu.

1 Outer bract c. 1 - 5 mm; spikes with atleast 10 spikelets per cm (a) subsp. auriculae-ursifolium

1 Outer bract 2-2- 5 mm; spikes with 5-8 spikelets per cm

2 Spikes with 5-6 spikelets per cm; spikelets 2-flowered (b) subsp. lusitanicum

2 Spikes with 8 spikelets per cm; spikelets 5- to 6-flowered (c) subsp. multiflorum