Limonium amoenum (C.H.Wright) R.A.Dyer

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Plumbaginaceae > Limonium

Characteristics

Shrublet 30 cm or more tall, branched from near or slightly above the base, with the branches up to about 10 cm long and bearing leaves towards their tips. Leaves oblanceolate or spathulate, 3-5 cm long, 2-5 mm broad, acute or mucronate, more or less rugose when dry. Scapes 5-30 cm tall, dichotomously or subdichotomously branched from near base, terminating in spikes with 3-15 flowers, the branchlets straight or curved with zig-zag appearance and bracts broadly ovate-oblong, apiculate with broad membranous margin. Spikelets 1-flowered; bract enveloping calyx tube, 7-8 mm long, with membranous margin nearly throughout. Calyx 1-1.2 cm long with cylindric tube about 8 mm long, 5-ribbed, the ribs pilose in the lower half; limb 9-12 mm diam., pink, membranous, 10-lobed with 5 larger than the intermediate ones. Petals linear-oblanceolate, 1-4 cm long, 3 mm broad, united for about 0-5 mm at the base, pink. Stamens nearly as long as corolla with anthers 2 mm long with the cells divided to the middle and mucronulate at the base. Ovary oblong, 5-angled; styles long and curved, minutely capitate.
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Pustulate-scurfy shrublet to 30 cm, leafy above. Leaves oblanceolate, 30-50 x 2-5 mm. Flowers in panicles, pink, calyx limbs 9-12 mm diam.
Low growing shrub, like L. namaquanum but with flowers staggered along the branches. Flowers white with a pink calyx.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.3
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 20
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity dark
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Distribution

Limonium amoenum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:686634-1
WFO ID wfo-0001095171
COL ID 6QDYF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Statice amoena Limonium amoenum