Common name: Winged Sea Lavender
Limonium lobatum (L.f.) Chaz. APNI* Synonyms: Limonium thouinii (Viv.) Kuntze APNI*
Description: More or less glabrous annual to 1 m high.
Basal leaves mostly 3–10 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, 5–7-lobed.
Flowering stems 3-winged; wing 3–8 mm wide, terminal lobe stiff, to 30 mm long. Raceme compact; terminal units of flowers with a 3-toothed wing, 20 cm long, 5 mm wide; terminal units 2-flowered with inner bract c. 6 mm long. Calyx c. 10 mm long, glabrous, pale blue or whitish; the acute lobes of limb alternating with 5 bristle-like prolongations of the veins. Corolla yellow.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated, occasionally naturalized. Native of Asia & Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A. *W.A.
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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