Limonium wrightii (Hance) O.Kuntze

Japanese: イソマツ(磯松) - イソマツ（英語表記）Limonium wrightii (Hance) O.Kuntze

A small shrub-like perennial plant of the Plumbaceae family that grows on rocky coasts in southern Japan (illustration). Its Japanese name comes from the resemblance of its stem to a pine trunk. The stem is thick, short, and branches upward. Many leaves are gathered at the ends of the branches, are thick, oblanceolate, 2-5 cm long, and 4-7 mm wide. In August and September, the plant grows a branched flower stalk, which produces many spikelets in a cone shape. The spikelets have bracts at their base, and the spikelets are enclosed in two bracts. The calyx is tubular with five shallow lobes, and the corolla is tubular with five lobes and reddish purple in color. It is distributed in the Izu Islands, the Ogasawara Islands, Yakushima, the Ryukyus, and Taiwan.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

日本南部の海岸の岩場に生えるイソマツ科の小低木状の多年草（イラスト）。茎が松の幹に似ているので，和名がある。茎は，太く短く枝分れして斜上する。葉は枝の先端に多数集まり，質は厚く，倒披針形，長さ2～5cm，幅4～7mm。8～9月に多数に分枝した花茎を伸ばし，多数の小穂を円錐状につける。小穂の基部には苞があり，また小穂は2枚の小苞に包まれる。萼は筒状で，浅く5裂し，花冠は筒状で5裂し，紅紫色。伊豆七島，小笠原諸島，屋久島，琉球，台湾に分布する。

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