Species Limonium scabrum
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Limonium:
Gk. leimōnion, the ‘sea-lavender’, from leimon = meadow (not marsh, which is limné). Many species flourish in saline soils and are therefore common near coasts and in salt marshes.
Etymology of scabrum:
From the Latin scabo meaning 'to scratch' meaning 'rough'
Scientific name:
Limonium scabrum (Thunb.) Kuntze
Common names:
Sea Lavender
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Revis. Gen. Pl. 396 (1891)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1891
Roughly scurfy, tufted dwarf perennial to 25 cm. Leaves basal, oblanceolate to obovate, to 80 10 mm. Flowers in dense, erect or spreading corymbs with lower branchlets often sterile, mauve, scapes sometimes developing tufts of leaves in the lower axils, calyx limbs to 5 mm diam.. Oct.--May. Coastal dunes and estuaries, SW, AP, LB, SE (Cape Peninsula to E Cape).
Observations of Taxon
Limonium scabrum
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Limonium scabrum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Limonium scabrum
Name of observer:
Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
Date observed:
03/12/2010 - 1:25pm
Collection:
Limonium scabrum
Name of observer:
Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
Date observed:
12/10/2014 - 12:00pm
Collection:
Limonium scabrum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
27/09/2005 - 4:20pm
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