Limonium longifolium (Thunb.) R.A.Dyer

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Plumbaginaceae > Limonium

Characteristics

Tufted perennial, becoming woody, vegetative branches short and often dense, rarely somewhat elongated. Leaves more or less radical, oblanceolate-linear, 6-20 cm long, rarely longer, 5-10 mm broad, tapering into a petiole-like base, stem-clasping, obtuse, mucronate, entire, glabrous, smooth or very minutely scabrid, sometimes somewhat glaucous, midrib often prominent on lower surface. Scape 12-45 cm tall, dichotomously branched, very variable, sometimes lax, sometimes dense and rigid, smooth below and usually minutely pitted towards spikelets; inflorescence cymose-corymbose with spikes of 3-12 spikelets; bracts broadly oblong-ovate 2-4 mm long with membranous margin. Spikelets 1-flowered, sessile, rarely appearing peduncled due to the reduction of the cymes; bract 7-10 mm long, occasionally up to 12 cm, enveloping base of calyx, with broad membranous margin. Flowers subsessile, or shortly pedicellate. Calyx ivory to pale pink and sometimes tµming reddish-brown, 14-20 mm long, with cylindric tube in lower half, pilose towards base and along the full length of the 5 ribs; limb spreading 1.5-1.7 cm diam. with 10 short, broad lobes. Petals white to pale pink, oblanceolate, emarginate, longer than calyx. Stamens with anthers divided halfway. Ovary deeply 5-winged; styles 5 free, filiform.
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Scurfy, tufted perennial to 60 cm. Leaves mostly basal, linear-oblanceolate, 60-200 x 5-10 mm. Flowers in scapose corymbs, pink to peach and white, calyx limbs 15-17 mm diam.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.12 - 0.45
Root system -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10 - 20
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity dark
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Limonium longifolium world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:686851-1
WFO ID wfo-0001095192
COL ID 6QDQT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Limonium longifolium Statice longifolia