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| Genus: | Globularia |
| Species: | G. salicina
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| Globularia salicina Lam.
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Description
[edit]Globularia salicina Lam. Erect shrub up to 2 m high with slender branches. Leaves 3.5-7 x 0.5-3 cm, alternate, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, entire, elliptic, acute, attenuate at the base, entire glabrous, erect to erectopatent, evergreen. Inflorescences in dense globular heads with tomentose to glaberescent ovate axillary bracts, with densely long ciliate margins. Heads often less than 1.5 cm across, often crowded towards the tips of the stems, pale powder blue or whitish, hermaphrodite and zygomorphic. Calyx tubular, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, margins ciliate. Corolla 4 mm long with a slender tube, 2-lipped, the upper lip almost absent, the lower with 3 long lobes. Stamens exserted 4, style exserted, stigma bilobed. Fruit a small 1-seeded nut 1 mm, dark brown.
Distribution
[edit]Distribution in the archipelago of Madeira: Common in Madeira on hillsides, cliffs, slopes, among rocks, and rough grassland, mostly below 300 m, but up to 500 – 700 m in the south, seldom above 400 m in the north, rare in Porto Santo and also known from Deserta Grande.
Distribution in the Canary Islands: Rare in Gran Canaria, common on southern slopes in Tenerife, and on northern coastal region of La Gomera, also found in El Hierro and in the north eastern region of La Palma.
Picture gallery
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Globularia salicina, cultivated, in the second week of October 1999 in Madeira. -
Globularia salicina in the second week of October 1999 in Madeira.
References
[edit]- J. R. Press and M. J. Short, Flora of Madeira, ISBN 0-11-310017-5, 1994, Natural History Museum, UK,