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Galium maritimum

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Identification
Galium maritimum L. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Galium gonzaloi
  • Galium indet.
  • Galium bertrandi
  • Galium lanuginosum
  • Galium maritimum

Flora

Entry for GALIUM tomentosum Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
GALIUM tomentosum Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], ! Fl. Cap. p. 151;—E. Z.! 2324.
GALIUM maritimum Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], Prodr., not of Linn.
GALIUM asperum E. Z. var. β. villosum [family RUBIACEAE], 2323. Zeyh. 2720.
Information
stem climbing, 4-sided, much branched, with the angles scabrous, hairy, or glabrous and prickled; upper branches densely clothed with white hairs; leaves 4–6 in a whorl, obovate, or obovate-oblong, glabrous, prickled on the margins; peduncles dichotomous, capillary, villous, forming a large panicle; pedicels elongated, 10–20 times longer than the flower. Well distinguished by the long (1 inch and more) villous pedicels. Leaves smaller than in G. asperum, 5–6 lines long, 2 lines broad. Fl. glabrous. Fr. 1 line in diam.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Among shrubs, through the colony. Oct.-Jan. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd.)

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