Family | PLUMBAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Acantholimon bromifolium Boiss. ex Bunge sect. Glumaria |
Synonyms | Armeriastrum bromifolium (Boiss. ex Bunge) Kuntze |
Habitat | screes |
Altitude | 2100-3000m |
Description | glaucous, leaves dense, long, flat, margins white cartilagineous, thinly acerose, spikelets numerous, remote, 1-2-flowered, in long spike, corolla lobes purple striate |
Size | 15-25cm |
Color | pale rose |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub, cushion |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 month, 10-16°C half-ripe cuttings in midsummer, stimulator |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Western Asia (Iran , Iraq) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | PLUMBAGINACEAE
bromifolium iranicum (Bornm.) Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika, Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 108: 44 (1974)
bromifolium lolioides Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika, ibid.
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