Limonium scabrum Kuntze

Tufted perennial shrublet with erect or somewhat spreading scapes, scabrid with raised pits; branches short, densely leafy near the tips but sometimes becoming almost nude. Leaves obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowed into the petiole, up to 8 cm long, 1 cm broad, stem-clasping, scabrid on upper surface, prominently ribbed on lower surface. Scapes branched, many-flowered, 10-25 cm long, usually especially scabrid on the upper portion, with sterile, articulate branchlets in the lower half, very occasionally leaves present. Bracts 1.5-2.0 mm long, more or less triangular. Spikelets 1-2-flowered, rarely 3-flowered, developing successively or 1 and one aborted; bracts 4-5 mm long, tightly enveloping the calyx, obtuse or sometimes apiculate with a membranous margin; bracteole membranous Calyx 6-8 mm long, slender, glabrous or with few short hairs near base; limb with 5 broad lobes about 1 mm long. Petals mauve to violet, 9-12 mm long, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, emarginate, filaments shorter than the petals. Anthers short, divided to half way. Ovary oblong, 5-angled in the upper half with 5 free styles.