Limonium melium, (Nyman) Pignatti

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

41. L. melium (Nyman) Pignatti , Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 64: 365 (1971)

( Statice cosyrensis subsp. melia Nyman ).

Plant 20-40 cm, glabrous, smooth. Leaves 25-50 x 4-7 mm, linear-spathulate, revolute. Inflorescence branched from the base; segments constricted at the nodes; non-flowering branches few. Spikes up to T5 cm, with 3-5 spikelets per cm; spikelets 1-flowered. Bracts with narrow hyaline margin; inner bract c. 3 mm; outer bract overlapping J of the inner one. Calyx 5-5-5 mm, exceeding bracts by c. 2 mm; limb as long as to 1£ times as long as the tube. Corolla c. 6 mm. Calcareous cliffs near the sea. • S. Greece, Kikhlades. Gr,