Globularia salicina

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Globularia salicina

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Plantaginaceae
Genus:	Globularia
Species:	G. salicina
Binomial name
*Globularia salicina* Lam.

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Globularia salicina is a shrub native to the archipelago of Madeira and to the central and western Canary Islands.

Description

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Erect shrub up to 2 m high with slender branches. Leaves 3.5-7 x 0.5–3 cm, alternate, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, entire, glabrous, acute, attenuate at the base, erect to erectopatent, evergreen. Inflorescences in dense globular heads with tomentose to glabrescent ovate axillary bracts, with densely long ciliate margins. Heads often less than 1.5 cm across, often crowded towards the tips of the stems, pale powder blue or whitish, hermaphrodite and zygomorphic. Calyx tubular, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, margins ciliate. Corolla 4 mm long with a slender tube, 2-lipped, the upper lip almost absent, the lower with 3 long lobes. Stamens exserted 4, style exserted, stigma bilobed. Fruit a small 1-seeded nut 1 mm, dark brown.

Distribution

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Common in Madeira on hillsides, cliffs, slopes, among rocks, and rough grassland. Found mostly below 300 m, seldom above 400 m in the north, but up to 700 m in the south. Rare in Porto Santo and also known from Deserta Grande.

Rare on Gran Canaria, but common on southern slopes in Tenerife and on northern coastal region of La Gomera. It is also found in El Hierro and in the north eastern region of La Palma.

Gallery

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Globularia salicina (Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo)
Globularia salicina (Puntallana)
Globularia salicina (Puntallana)
Globularia salicina (Puntallana)
Globularia salicina
In Madeira

References

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Press, J. R. and M. J. Short. Flora of Madeira. Natural History Museum, UK. 1994. ISBN 0-11-310017-5
David Bramwell and Zoë Bramwell. Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands. Editorial Rueda, Madrid, España. 2001. ISBN 84-7207-129-4

Taxon identifiers
Globularia salicina	Wikidata: Q10290166 Wikispecies: Globularia salicina APDB: 150385 CoL: 6KJ6H EPPO: GLBSA GBIF: 5578501 GRIN: 17652 iNaturalist: 627615 IPNI: 813091-1 IUCN: 102818794 NCBI: 85157 Observation.org: 142290 Open Tree of Life: 682443 Plant List: kew-2826719 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:813091-1 Tropicos: 50317443 WFO: wfo-0000703859

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