''Globularia salicina'' is a shrub native to the archipelago of
Madeira and to the central and western
Canary Islands.
Description
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
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
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that ...
, but common on southern slopes in
Tenerife
Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of Janu ...
and on northern coastal region of
La Gomera
La Gomera () is one of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. With an area of , it is the third smallest of the eight main islands of this archipelago. It belongs to the province of Santa Cruz de Tene ...
. It is also found in
El Hierro
El Hierro, nicknamed ''Isla del Meridiano'' (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest-south and -west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with a populatio ...
and in the north eastern region of
La Palma
La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and officially San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of making it the fifth largest of the eight main Canary Islands. The ...
.
Gallery
File:Globularia salicina (Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo).jpg, Globularia salicina (Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo)
File:Globularia salicina (Puntallana) 03 ies.jpg, Globularia salicina (Puntallana)
File:Globularia salicina (Puntallana) 01 ies.jpg, Globularia salicina (Puntallana)
File:Globularia salicina (Puntallana) 06 ies.jpg, Globularia salicina (Puntallana)
File:Globularia salicina 1.jpg, Globularia salicina
File:Globularia salicina in the second week of October 1999 in Madeira..jpg, In Madeira
References
* Press, J. R. and M. J. Short. ''Flora of
Madeira''.
Natural History Museum
A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...
, UK. 1994.
* David Bramwell and Zoë Bramwell. ''Wild Flowers of the
Canary Islands''. Editorial Rueda,
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
, España. 2001.
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salicina
Flora of the Canary Islands
Flora of Madeira
Endemic flora of Macaronesia