Limonium cosyrense, (Guss.) O. Kuntze

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 : 44

36. L. cosyrense (Guss.) O. Kuntze , Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891)

( Statice cosyrensis Guss. ).

Plant 15-50 cm. Leaves 20-25 x 2-5-3 mm, flat or slightly revolute, obtuse, in rosettes on somewhat woody basal branches 1-3 cm. Inflorescence up to 25 cm; segments up to 2 cm, flexuous or rigid, diverging at an acute angle, greenish. Spikes 2-5 cm, lax, with 3-4 spikelets per cm; spikelets 1-flowered. Inner bract 3-5(-4)mm; outer bract c. 1 mm, overlapping of the inner. Calyx c. 4 mm, exceeding the bract by c. 1-5 mm; limb campanulate, J - j as long as the tube; lobes c. 0-8 mm. Rocky slopes. • Malta, Pantelleria. Si.