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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-17
Page range: 268–274
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Limonium poimenum (Plumbaginaceae), a new chasmophyte species from Sicily

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 26, I 90123 Palermo, Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 4,Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Catania, Via A. Longo 19, I 95125 Catania, Italy
Endemic Sicily Mediterranean flora new chasmophilous species

Abstract

Limonium poimenum is here proposed as a new species for Science. It is a very peculiar and extremely localized species, growing on a calcareous mountain of NW Sicily (southern Italy), where it grows on rupestrian places together with many other rare chasmophytic endemics. Iconography, morphological features, ecology and conservation status are provided, as well as a morphological comparison with L. todaroanum.