Acantholimon longiflorum Boiss.

Laxly pulvinate shrub; branches long, + bare at the lower part. Leaves heteromorphic; summer leaves glaucous - green, linear - subulate, smooth-margined, glabrous, early-evanescent. Scape slender, branched, fragile, exceeding the leaves. Infloresecence a panicle; spikelets stalked, remotely arranged along the branches of secondary order, always 1-flowered, 3-bracteate; outer bract ovate-triangular, acute, scarious-margined, inner bracts oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 2 times as long as the outer bract, obtuse; mucronate, broadly scarious-margined. Calyx sub-tubular, distinctly 5-lobed; lobes narrowly triangular, acute; nerves in the middle of the lobes, reaching the margin.

Distribution: W. Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Fl. Per.: July-October.