Compilation
Limonium dregeanum

Tufted perennial becoming woody, sometimes with base of old scapes subpersistent. Leaves linear-spathulate, rarely linear or oblanceolate, 1-4 cm long, 1 -5-5 mm broad, obtuse, mucronate. tapered to the base and stem-clasping. Scape 5-25 cm tall, more or less scabrid with minute raised pits freely or sparsely set; bracts short, subtriangular, sheathing, acute or obtuse; the fertile branches terminating in spikes of a few spikelets. Spikelets (2-) 3-8-flowered with the flowers developing successively and rarely more than 2 corollas open at the same time; bracts 3-3-5 mm long, obtuse, with whitish mem­branous margin; flowers pedicellate, pedicels persistent, truncate, 0 • 75-1 • 5 mm long. Calyx 4 mm long usually with a few hairs on the tube between the ribs, with white, obtusely 5-lobed limb. Petals lilac to pale pink, oblong-spathulate, longer than calyx. Stamens attached near the base of the petals with oblong anthers divided halfway. Ovary 5-angled above with the 5 filiform free styles bent down in bud and later exserted.— Fig. 5:4.