Limonium linifolium Kuntze

Tufted shrublet with leafy branches 3-10 cm long, or branches shorter and often defoliated in tidal areas. Leaves linear, 2.0-3.5 cm long, 1 mm broad, flattish on upper surface, rounded on lower surface or, in a varietal form, up to 5 cm long, 1.5-3.0 mm broad towards apex or rotted away due to constant submersion, stem-clasping at base. Scapes 10-30 cm long, rarely shorter or longer, smooth or very slightly scabrid, sparingly or freely branched, with the fertile branchlets terminating in spikes of a few spikelets; bracts ovate, 1.0-2.5 mm long. Spikelets (1-)2-3-flowered; bracts 3-5 mm long, enveloping flowers in young stage, obtuse with membranous margin. Calyx 6-7 mm long, pubescent with few hairs on lower half; limb with 5 ovate or lanceolate lobes 1 mm long. Petals spathulate or oblanceolate, emarginate or 2-lobed at apex, 8-9 mm long. Stamens with filaments about 7 mm long; anthers 1 mm long divided up to the middle. Ovary oblong, 5-angled in upper half; styles 5, filiform, with minute capitate stigmas.