Lavatera maritima, Gouan
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4. L. maritima Gouan View in CoL , Obs. Bot. 46 (1773)
Shrub 30-120 cm; older branches bare, grey, glabrous, rugose; younger parts densely whitish-tomentose with minute stellate hairs. Leaves up to 7 x 8 cm but usually smaller, suborbicular, usually slightly 5-lobed; petiole 6-30 mm. Flowers solitary or in pairs; pedicels longer than the subtending petiole. Epicalyx-segments 3-8 mm, shorter than the sepals, ellipticlanceolate to ovate, nearly free; sepals triangular-ovate, acuminate, accrescent, connivent in fruit; petals 1-5-3 cm, pale pink with purple base. Mericarps 9-13, strongly ridged; dorsal face concave; angles very sharp, denticulate. Dry, rocky places. W. Mediterranean region. BI Co Ga Hs It Sa.
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Lavatera maritima
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
L. maritima
| Gouan 1773: 46 |