Acantholimon anatolicum
Acantholimon anatolicum
Ana kardikeni
Densely pulvinate glaucous shrublet. Leaves 5–12 × 0.5–1 mm, linear-triquetrous, glabrous, ciliate on margins. Scapes 5–8 cm excurrent, puberulent, with 2–3 spikes. Scales 4–5, shorter than internodes, puberulent. Spikes 15–20 mm, imbricate to terminal. Spikelets 6–12, 1-flowered, lower ones undeveloped. Bracts unequal, green; outer bracts 4– 5 mm, ovate, pointed at apex, densely puberulent, narrowly hyaline on margins; inner bracts 7–7.5 mm , oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, cuspidate, with narrowly hyaline on margins especially in upper half. Calyx infundibular, 10– 11 mm, tube pilose; limb white, 10-lobed; veins expanded towards margins, not excurrent. Petals pink.
Endemic.