Plants 10-90 cm tall, perennial shrublets or perennial herbs with a woody base or shrublets. Leaves 15-100 mm long, 2-15 mm wide, spirally arranged to more or less 2-ranked, flattened, rigid, oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate-spathulate, grey-green, glabrous, bases clasping, tips subacute to rounded or emarginate, Spikelets with 1-5 flowers, fairly densely arranged in paniculate inflorescences; bracts 3-6 mm long, obovate to elliptic or ovate, with scarious margins. Calyces 3-5 mm long, tubes pubesent at least below, sometimes only on one side, limbs shallowly lobed, white, glabrous or with pubescent midribs; corollas pink or purplish, about 5 mm long. Capsules 1.5-3 mm long.
Limonium axillare grows in gypseous or saline ground, from sea level to 1340 m. It is known from regions N1-N3, C2, S1, and S3 of the Flora of Somaliaand from Egypt through Sudan and Eritrea to Kenya, the Arabian Peninsula, and Pakistan.