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Galium spurium

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Name

Identification
Galium spurium L. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Puff C., 1979
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Flora

Entry for GALIUM spurium L. [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 spurium L. [family RUBIACEAE], (1753).
Information
Scrambling annual with prickly or scabrid stems. Leaves in whorls of 6–8; blades narrowly lanceolate to narrowly obovate, 1–4 x 0.1–0.7 cm, acuminate at the apex, margins and midvein below with recurved prickles. Cymes 1–9-flowered, sometimes many flowers solitary on unbranched peduncles. Corolla white, greenish or yellowish, 1–2 mm in diam. Mericarps 1–3 mm in diam., glabrous or hairy.

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