Acantholimon hohenackeri (Jaub. & Spach) Boiss. Plumbaginaceae

Synonyms

Armeriastrum tenuifolium Kuntze, Statice hohenackeri Jaub. & Spach

Local Names

Azerbaijan: Hоhеnакеr tıs-tısı; English: Hohenacker’s prickly-thrift

Botany and Ecology

Rather compactly pulvinate subhemishperical shrub, up to 20–30 cm in diameter. The summer leaves are glaucous-green or pale glaucous, applanate-triquetrous, linear subulate, rigid, 1.5–2 cm long and ca. 5–1 mm broad, acerose, glabrous, the margin ciliate-scabrous. The spring leaves are slightly shorter and broader, otherwise alike. 1–3 rather short branches at the top. Distinctly 2-ranked, 5–10 spiculed, the joints about equaling the bracts. All single flowered. The bracts are glabrous. The outer bract is 4–5 mm long, about two-thirds the length of the inner ones, oblong-ovate, gradually acuminate, mucronate, rather narrowly margined. The inner bracts about equal the calyx tube. The calyx ca. 10–12 mm long, the tube ca. 6–7 mm long, rather densely covered between the nerves (and toward the apex of the nerves)...