GALIUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM

Family and Genus:- See- RUBIACEAE/Sect. PLATYGALIUM

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Galium (Gr) Milk.

Rotundifolium (L) Having rounded leaves

General description:- Gregarious perennial with a slender, creeping rhizome.

Stolons:-

1) Slender, creeping, mostly rooting.

Stems:-

1) Up to 20(-35) cm, slender, glabrous, or rarely with short, scattered hairs.

Leaves:-

1) 14-18 x 6-10(-12) mm, ovate to suborbicular, subacute, shortly petiolate,

delicate, more or less glabrescent.

Flower:-

1) Inflorescence, corymbose, rather few-flowered.

2) Pedicels, (2-)5-15 mm.

3) Bracts, few.

4) Corolla, 3-3·5(-4) mm diam, rotate.

Fruit:-

1) Mericarps, c. 2 mm, with patent, hooked hairs.

Key features:-

1) Stipules, and true leaves similar.

2) Corolla, rotate.

3) Stems, c. 20 cm, usually glabrous.

4) Inflorescence, corymbose.

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Habitat:- Seasonally damp, shady habitats in woodland of Abies, castanea, Fagus

or Platanus. (100-)400-1400 m.

Distribution:- Mainland Greece, Peloponnisos & Kefallinia. - Europe 7 Nw Africa,

northwards to the Baltic, eastwards to N Iran. Rare on Crete known from a few

location in western and central Crete.

Flowering time:- Late Apr to July.

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