Isotype of Limonium equisetinum(Boiss.) R.A.Dyer [family PLUMBAGINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Statice equisetina
Statice linifolia
Limonium equisetinum
Flora
Entry for Limonium equisetinum [family PLUMBAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Limonium equisetinum [family PLUMBAGINACEAE]
Common names
Statice equisetina Boiss. in DC, Prodr. 12: 658 (1848); Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 422 (1906).
Information
Tufted perennial sometimes producing rhizomes, somewhat glaucous, very thinly and shortly pubescent or glabrous, slightly pitted. Leaves radical, obovate or oblong, obtuse, mucronate, tapering into the stem-clasping petiole, 1-3 cm long, up to 1 cm broad. Scapes several decumbent or ascending, 10-30 cm long, with sterile often dense branchlets along their length and only the terminal ones bearing short spikes with the spikelets distichous and imbricate (very rarely with tufts of small leaves at the nodes); bracts ovate-triangular, acute, keeled. Spikelets 2- or occasionally 3-flowered, bracts enveloping the base of the young calyx, in more mature stage calyx protruding laterally, acute or mucronate, with membranous margin, glabrous. Calyx cylindric and glabrous or thinly pubescent in the lower half with the limb somewhat spreading and shortly 5-lobed. Petals blue, oblanceolate, emarginate, much longer than calyx. Ovary 5 angled above with 5 free styles. Fig. 5:3.
Use
14. Limonium equisetinum (Boiss.) R. A. Dyer in Kew Bull. 1932: 155 (1932). Type: Cape, Clanwilliam, Drege (G, holo.!).
Range
In sandveld from Malmesbury Division to Namaqualand.
