Family: Plumbaginaceae
Limonium sinuatum
Citation:
Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8 (1768).
Synonymy: Statice sinuata L., Sp. Pl. 276 (1753).
Common name: Notch-leaved (or perennial) sea-lavender.
Description:
Perennial, with few to many leaves in one to several basal rosettes, with a tough or slightly woody base; leaves oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 4-19 cm long, 0-40 mm broad, acute and mucronate, tapering often into a petiole up to 8 cm long, usually deeply lobed, with secondary and usually tertiary veins visible, hairy particularly on the undersurface.
Wings of stems of the inflorescence elongating into leaf-like structures; inflorescence a corymbose panicle with branches more or less spirally arranged, with part inflorescences with an obscurely 3-winged base and many apical spikelets each with 2 or 3 flowers, densely clustered in 2 rows; bracts all with a pronounced midrib continued into an awn except the second outer sterile one which has 2 or 3 erect points; calyx 12-14 mm long, bluish-purple to dark-blue, more or less funnel-shaped, usually glabrous, with midribs continued to the apex of the unlobed fringe, corolla with the spreading lobes scarcely emarginate, pale-yellow to almost white.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 548.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: GT, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Native to and widespread mainly on the northern Mediterranean.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Oct. — March.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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