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Limonium capense

Limonium capense
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Limonium capense is a branched shrublet growing to heights around 45 cm. The limoniums of the Western Cape are often called sea-pink or in Afrikaans papierblom (paper flower). They belong to the Plumbaginaceae family.

The obovate leaves have a pitted and a finely scaled, greyish surface. The white, papery corolla of the flower has five pink bands from the uneven corolla edge into the throat with a dark purple line down the centre of each. Flowers occur on short spikes and the plant blooms in summer.

The species is endemic to a small area of coastal limestone flats and fynbos near Malmesbury and Saldanha Bay. It is considered to be near threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (JSTOR; http://redlist.sanbi.org).

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