Limonium kraussianum Kuntze

Freely branched perennial, forming mats rather than tufts, with prostrate branches up to 10 cm or more long, glabrous and somewhat glaucous. Leaves abundant and densely crowded, rosulate at the tips of the branchlets, linear-subulate 1.0-1.5 cm long, sub-triangular in cross-section with upper surface flat and somewhat keeled on under surface. Scapes slender, 5-15 cm long, rarely longer but occasionally up to 30 cm, spreading, unbranched in the lower half and generally devoid of sterile branchlets, with a compact inflorescence on the upper half, terminating in short spikes; bracts ovate-triangular, 1.5-2.0 mm long, acute, minutely gland-tipped, with narrow membranous margin. Spikelets 2-3-rarely 4-flowered; bract enveloping the flowers in young stage, about 5 mm long, with membranous margin. Calyx 6.0-6.5 mm long, slender, thinly appressed-pubescent in lower half; limb very little expanded, shortly 5-lobed. Ovary 5-angled with 5 free styles; fruit 3 mm long.