Limonium lucentinum, Pignatti & Freitag

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 : 42

25. L. lucentinum Pignatti & Freitag , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 64: 363 (1971).

Plant 15-33 cm, greyish-pubescent. Leaves 30-40 x 11-15 mm, withered at anthesis. Inflorescence corymbose, with patent branches; non-flowering branches present. Spikes 1- 1-5 cm, sometimes forming irregular clusters; spikelets 1- to 2- flowered, patent. Bracts with narrow hyaline margin; inner bract 4-4-5 mm, forming a narrowly cylindrical envelope around the flowers. Calyx c. 5 mm; limb j as long as the tube. Corolla 5-6 mm, blue-violet. Maritime salt-marshes. • S.E. Spain (Alicante prov.). Hs.