GALIUM INCRASSATUM
Family and Genus:- See- RUBIACEAE/Sect. KOLGYDA
Common Names:- None
Homotypic Synonyms:- None
Meaning:- Galium (Gr) Milk.
Incrassatum(L) Very thick, stout.
General description:-
Stems:-
1) Ascending, bifurcating from the base, retrorsely aculeolate below, hairy to
glabrescent, above.
Leaves:-
1) 5-13 × 0·6-3 mm. in whorls of (5-)6(-7).
a) lower, oblanceolate.
b) upper, narrowly lanceolate to linear, acute or with a short awn, blackish when
dry, glabrous, or hairy, (especially above).
2) Margin and midrib, antrorsely scabrid.
a) margin, somewhat revolute.
Flower:-
1) Inflorescence, broadly ovoid;
a) partial inflorescences, 5-8 mm diam, somewhat lax, capitate, dense, many-
flowered, with 10-15 flowers at the 2 nodes below the central flower.
2) Pedicels, 0·5-1·5 mm, rather rigid, somewhat thickened after anthesis
3) Corolla, 0·8-1·6 mm in diam. glabrous (rarely hairy), reddish.
a) lobes, not or shortly apiculate, (appendages less than 0·1 mm).
Fruit:-
1) 0·8-1·5 mm. usually with patent, more or less curved hairs.
Key features:-
Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, stony places in gorges, coastal habitats, 0-
600 m, occasionally to 1200 m in dolines.
Distribution:- Endemic to W Crete, long known only from the type, but reported
from many localities by Ralf Jahn
Flowering time:- April-May.
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