Limonium otolepis (Schrank) Kuntze APNI* 
Description: Perennial, mostly 40–80 cm high, glabrous except for calyx.
Basal leaves usually dying off at about flowering time, obovate to spathulate, 3–8 cm long, 20–30 mm wide; stem leaves mostly borne at the lower nodes, sessile, ± circular, 10–30 mm wide, gradually dying off and falling after flowering.
Sterile inflorescence branches numerous. Flowering stems not winged, numerous, much branched, terete or ribbed; bracts c. 1 mm long. Calyx c. 2 mm long, white to mauve.
Flowering: summer to autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Garden escape. Native of Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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