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Statice

noun
1.
Any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers.  Synonyms: marsh rosemary, sea lavender.





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... was able to examine only dried specimens of the long-styled forms. But the evidence seems sufficient to leave hardly a doubt that Androsace is heterostyled. Fritz Muller sent me from South Brazil dried flowers of a Statice which he believed to be heterostyled. In the one form the pistil was considerably longer and the stamens slightly shorter than the corresponding organs in the other form. But as in the shorter-styled ...
— The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Statice" :   subshrub, Limonium, suffrutex, genus Limonium


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