cleavers, goosegrass., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
Flora
Entry for GALIUM Aparine Linn. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
GALIUM AparineLinn. [family RUBIACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. i. p. 108, (1753).
Information
Annual, flaccid, scandent. Stem and branches quadrangular, aculeate-scabrid with short hairs directed downward or nearly glabrous, somewhat hirsute about the nodes. Leaves 6–9 in a whorl, sublinear or narrowly elliptical, attenuate towards the base, mucronate, 1-nerved, 1/2–1 in. long, sometimes rather smaller, margins retrorsely aculeate. Flowers small; corolla ranging up to 1/5 in. diam., white or greenish; the axillary peduncles rather longer than the leaves, the terminal ones subpaniculate. Fruit 1/12– 1/8 in. long, 1/6– 1/4 in. diam., beset with hooked bristles or rarely glabrous, on erect divaricate pedicels.
Range
This species is very widely spread over the world.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Petit! Schimper!
Notes
The following varieties may prove to be distinct species, as indeed they have often been regarded.
