Limonium mansanetianum M.B.Crespo & Lledó
Family: PLUMBAGINACEAE
Genus: Limonium
Catalan common name: Ensopeguera de Mansanet, Ensopeguera setabense.
Spanish common name: Estátice setabense, Saladilla setabense.
Province distribution: València.
General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean (Eastern-Iberian)
Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.
IUCN Category: Critically endangered
Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Habitats: Gypsicolous shrubland. Subdesertic xerosteppes, espartaes. Red, gypsiferous, and saline clays, on slopes of warm areas with sufficient soil moisture and in very sunny positions.
Characteristics: Perennial herb, woody at the base, branched and papillose. Leaves in a dense rosette, spatulate, with 1-3 veins, green or only partly withered during flowering. Flowering scapes 20-50 cm, erect, with numerous thick sterile lower branches. Spikes lax (2-4 per cm). Calyx 5 mm, with acute teeth and ribs ending above the base of the teeth; tube covered with long hairs only on one side. Petals 7 mm, pale violet in color.
Observations: Species of great complexity, like the rest of the genus, it is similar to L. parvibracteatum, from which it differs by its lax spikelets, the calyx hairy only on one side, and the calyx teeth acute.