Limonium cylindrifolium
General description:
Limonium cylindrifolium (Forssk.)Verdc., Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 395 (1891).
Synonyms:
Limonium fruticosum Mill., in Gard. Dict. ed. 8: n.º 12 (1768).
Conservation status:
EN
Diagnostic description:
Perennial herb, erect, up to 40 cm tall. Leaves sessile, fleshy, narrowly cylindrical, 2-5 cm long, apex mucronate, glabrous. Flowers in few flowered cymes, densely arranged in one sided spikes forming racemes. Bracts dull red. Calyx tube 2 mm long, glabrous. Corolla deep red or purple, projecting beyond calyx, crumpled within the calyx after flowering. Stamens exserted. Styles 5, stigma filiform.
Distribution:
Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. The Farasan Islands(Farasan Al-Kabir- Dawshak).