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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Plumbaginaceae
Limonium hyblaeum

Synonymy: Limonium psilocladon, Limonium sp.

Common name: None

Description:
Perennials, with leaves densely clustered in one to few basal rosettes, with a slightly woody base; leaves oblanceolate to ovate-spathulate, 2-3.5 cm long, 7-16 mm broad, obtuse or rounded, usually abruptly tapering into a petiole-like base, entire, with recurved margins, with the central vein at least visible on the undersurface, glabrous.

Inflorescence an obovate to almost corymbose panicle, with the branches more or less distichous, each spike-like part-inflorescence with 5-9 densely clustered spikelets each with 2-5 flowers; outer sterile bracts with a green base and short pronounced midrib rarely longer than the hyaline margin; all other bracts membranous and without a pronounced midrib; calyx 4.5-5.5 mm long, pink, with a funnel-shaped tube hairy at the base, with the midrib continued half to two-thirds of the length of the broadly triangular lobes; lobes at least half the length of the tube, spreading to recurved in fruit; corolla funnel-shaped with the recurved lobes more or less truncate, pink to violet.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: throughout the year.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The inflorescence with densely placed spikelets is superficially similar to that of L. binervosum, but the leaves are more obtuse like those of L. companyonis, and the midrib of the calyx is longer than in the former but not quite as long as in the latter. The species could not be identified and it is possible that it is a hybrid of horticultural origin or a hybrid between L. binervosum and L. companyonis, especially as near Port Adelaide is the only locality in S.Aust. where both these species occur next to one another.

Author: Not yet available


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