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Galium setaceum

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Name

Identification
Galium setaceum (Boiss.) Ehrend. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Galium capillare
  • Galium setaceum
  • Galium microcarpum
  • Galium decaisnei

Flora

Entry for GALIUM setaceum Lam. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
GALIUM setaceum Lam. [family RUBIACEAE], (1788). Fig. 49.
GALIUM decaisnei Boiss. [family RUBIACEAE], (1845);
GALIUM setaceum (Boiss.) Ehrend. subsp. decaisnei [family RUBIACEAE], in Biol. Meddel. Kong. Danske Vid. Selsk. 10: 144 (1958). [type as above]
Information
Annual, more or less erect, up to 30 cm tall, but usually much smaller; stems slender, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. Leaves mostly in whorls of 4–6; blades filiform to narrowly linear or oblanceolate, 5–17 x up to c. 1 mm, acute but not awned at the apex, scabrid with±forwardly directed hairs along margins. Cymes lax, with filiform bracts; pedicels 1–8 mm long. Corolla purplish or greenish, c. 0.5–0.8 mm in diam. Mericarps c. 0.5–0.8 mm long, densely covered with±hooked hairs to glabrous.
Range
N2, 3 Djibouti, the Mediterranean Region, Middle East and eastwards to Iran.
Altitude range
650–900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 15721; Thulin & Warfa 6110; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9204.
Notes
First record for Somalia.

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