Latin name: Armeria humilis Family:  Plumbaginaceae
English name: Herb of falling in love (by extension).
Description: Plant of branched out stock, of adult with pulvinular aspect. Linear, ciliate, dimorphic leaves,  the external ones are flat, the internal narrower, grooved. Generally minor stem of 10 cm. Involucral pod generally minor of 1 cm. Involucral external bracts  shorter than the internal ones and these shorter than the spicular bracts.
Distribution: Endemism in the massif  Xurés-Gerês (Spain - Portugal), with a nearby disjunction in the Serra Amarela (Portugal). In Spanish territory it is in high zones of the slope ourensana of the Serra do Xurés, in the destricts of Lobios and Muiños (Ourense).
Habitat: Cracks of big rocky places of summit (granodiorite) and sandy not deep soils in the surrounding areas. It begins to form a part of the communities of cesspitous camephytus and graminoid hemicriptophytus of the association Minuartio recurvae-Silenetum acutifoliae. As accompanists species:Festuca summilusitana, Armory beirana, Hieracium amplexicaule, Minuartia re-curls Minuartia recurva, Silene acutifolia, Phalacrocarpum oppossitifolium, Sedum brevifolium, etc.

Report about the reasons of the risk: Risk by the recent releesing of alochthonous goats (Capra hispanica subsp. hispanica), instead of native subspecies (C. hispanica subsp. lusitanica) already extinct. Endogamy. Forest fires.

Category IUCN: EN
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