Acantholimon venustum
Acantholimon venustum
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Laxly to densely pulvinate shrublet. Leaves glaucous to glaucous-green, linear to linear-lanceolate, 15-40 x 1-2 mm, margins scabridulous. Scapes equal to or longer than leaves. Spikes simple, rather laxly distichous. Spikelets 7-15, 12-14 mm. Outer bract 3-6 mm, acute to acuminate, shorter than inner bracts; inner bracts oblong-lanceolate, keeled, acute or obtuse, cuspidate. Calyx tube pilose, limb obscurely 5-lobed, pink to purple, veins usually concolorous, reaching margin or excurrent. Petals deep pink. Fl. 6-8. Rocky igneous slopes, limestone hills, mountain steppe, Pinus and mixed forest, 650-2350 m.
1. Bracts pubescent ........................................................................var, assyriacum
1. All bracts glabrous, rarely inner bracts sparsely puberulent on vein
2. Spikelets congested; outer bract broadly triangular .................var. venustum
2. Spikelets fairly remote; outer bract lanceolate ............var. laxiflorum =A.laxiflorum
