Class: | Magnoliopsida |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Limoniaceae |
Genus: | Limonium |
Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
Scientific name: | Limonium otolepis (Schrenk) Kuntze |
Name acc. to: | Bektemir |
Herbar: | list records ![]() |
Synonym: | Statice otolepis Schrenk |
Description: | Herbs, perennial, 30--90(--120) cm tall. Rhizomes dark red-brown, usually apical part erect, apically becoming a thickened caudex. Leaves basal and on peduncle and rachis, withered by anthesis; leaf blade 3--6(--8) X 1--2(--3) cm including petiole; basal leaves with narrow petiole, leaf blade obovate-spatulate, base attenuate, apex obtuse to rounded; other leaves sessile, broadly ovate to reniform, base clasping, leaving ringlike scars after abscissing. |
Link to Flora of China: | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200017516 |
Habitat: | on salt marshes and on the banks of ponds and as a weed in the fields. |