The genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in Greece
Author
Brullo, Salvatore
Author
Erben, Matthias
1 Dipartimento di scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Sezione di Biologia vegetale, Università di Catania, via A. Longo 19, I- 95125 Catania, Italy; e-mail: salvo. brullo @ gmail. com 2 Department Biologie I der LMU München, Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, Menzinger Strasse 67, D- 80638 München, Germany; e-mail: m. erben @ lmu. de or m. erben @ t-online. de * authors for correspondence
m.erben@lmu.de
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41.
Limonium hierapetrae
Rechinger
fil. (1943b: 104) (
Fig. 41
)
Type
(
lectotype
, designated here):―
GREECE
.
Crete
:
Creta
: Distr. Hierapetra:
In
litore arenoso a porto
Hierapetra
occidentem versus,
18 May 1942
,
Rechinger 13080
(W!,
isolectotypes
G!, M!)
.
Description:
—Plant perennial, glabrous, forming a sub-shrub
30–80 cm
tall, with several erect to ascending stems and a robust tap-root. Caudices
3–15 cm
long, branched, densely spirally leafy in the upper third, living leaves in rosettes at apices. Leaves fleshy, pale green, flat, smooth,
35–120 mm
long and
9–18 mm
broad, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-spathulate, apex obtuse to rounded, sometimes shortly mucronate, retuse, 1 central nerve with 2 lateral
LIMONIUM
(PLUMBAGINACEAE)
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FIGURE 41.
Limonium hierapetrae
Rechinger
fil.
A)
Habit;
B)
Spikelet;
C)
Outer bract;
D)
Middle bract;
E)
Inner bract;
F)
Calyx;
G)
Calyx lobes;
H)
Leaves. (Habit and leaves drawn from “Creta, Myrtos,
Brullo & Giusso s.n.,
CAT”, spikelet details from
“K.H. Rechinger 13080,
M”).
BRULLO & ERBEN nerves at least on large leaves, gradually tapering into the petiole. Stems green,
25–75 cm
long, slightly flexuous, rugose, branching begins above the lower third of the stems. Inflorescence obtrullate in outline. Sterile branches absent or 1–4 per stem,
10–35 mm
long, straight, undivided. Fertile branches
10–30 cm
long, slightly flexuous, straight to slightly curved, directed obliquely upwards, forming branching angles of 35°– 50°, in the upper half branched. Spikes
30–120 mm
long, straight to slightly curved, directed obliquely upwards. Spikelets
6.5–7.3 mm
long, composed of 1–2 flowers, arranged very remotely biseriately with 1–4 per
2 cm
. Outer bract 2.0–
2.5 mm
long and
2.1–2.3 mm
broad, triangular-ovate, acute; bract margin broadly membranous; central part slightly fleshy, acuminate. Middle bract membranous, 2.4–3.0 mm long and
1.6–1.9 mm
broad, oblong-elliptic, rounded. Inner bract (5.0–) 5.4–6.0 mm long and (3.8–)4.0–
4.3 mm
broad, oblong-obovate, rounded; bract margin broadly membranous; central part fleshy, 4.0–
4.6 mm
long and
2.1–2.5 mm
broad, oblong to oblong-obovate, acuminate, forming a triangular tip,
0.7–0.9 mm
long, not reaching the upper margin. Calyx 5.0–
5.5 mm
long, exceeding the inner bract by
1.3–1.5 mm
; calyx tube unilaterally sparsely to densely long hairy, with 5 ribs ending above the base of lobes; calyx lobes ca. 0.8 ×
1.2 mm
, broadly semi–elliptic. Corolla blue
-
lilac.
Chromosome number:
—2n = 43 (
Artelari 1989c
).
Distribution:
—Confined to southeast
Crete
, around Ierapetra (
Fig. 92G
).
Habitat:
—Calcareous and marly rocky coast.
Taxonomic remarks:
—
L. hierapetrae
is similar to
L. cornarianum
and
L. chrisianum
, but it differs from both by having broader leaves, and longer and broader inner bracts. From
L. chrisianum
it differs by having longer spikelets, longer and broader inner bracts and longer calyces.
Specimens examined:
—
GREECE
.
Crete
:
Creta
, in litore arenoso a porto Hierapetra occidentem versus,
18 May 1942
,
Rechinger fil. s.n.
(M);
Ep.
Ierapetra
: Gegend Machära zwischen Mìrtos u. Ammudàres,
10 m
, Neogen- Sedimente, spärlich am Strandabfall auf stark bröckeligem Schuttboden,
3 April 1962
,
Greuter 4076
(Herb. Greuter);
Crete
, Strand bei Myrtos westlich
von
Ierapetra
, Südküste,
4 September 1971
,
Hansen 307
(C);
Crete
, Neos Myrtos,
Prov. Hierapetra, S
facing sandy slopes,
10 m
,
22 April 1994
,
Wind
94-291
(C);
Kriti
island:
Nomos Lasithiou
:
1 km
W of Ferma village
near the ancient fish-pools, on calcareous maritime rocks,
1 June 1988
,
R. Artelari
&
Chondropoulos
1017
(M);
Kriti
island:
Nomos Lasithiou
:
Makrijialos village
, on conglomerate rocks near the ancient
Roman
settlement,
1 June 1988
,
R. Artelari
&
Chondropoulos
1018
(M);
Kriti
island:
Nomos Lasithiou
,
1 km
W Nea Anatoli village
on steps maritime marls,
2 June 1988
,
R. Artelari
&
Chondropoulos
1019
(M);
Kriti
island:
Nomos Lasithiou
:
3.4 km
E of Ierapetra town
, on conglomerate maritime rocks,
2 June 1988
,
R. Artelari
&
Chondropoulos
1055
(M);
Creta
,
Nea Anatoli
(marne),
22 August 1996
,
Brullo
&
Guarino
s.n.
(CAT, Herb. Erben);
Creta
,
Myrtos
,
10 June 2000
,
Brullo
&
Giusso
s.n.
(CAT, Herb. Erben)
.