GALIUM tenuissimum Bieb. [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 tenuissimum Bieb. [family RUBIACEAE], (1808).
Information
Annual, more or less erect, up to 40 cm or more tall; stems scabrid with recurved prickles along the angles. Leaves in whorls of 6–10; blades linear-lanceolate, 8–15 x 0.5–2 mm, acuminate and awned at the apex, margins scabrid with forwardly directed hairs. Cymes very lax, with lanceolate bracts; pedicels 3–15(–20) mm long, filiform. Corolla yellowish, 1–2 mm in diam. Mericarps reniform, c. 1 mm long, finely papillose.
Range
N1 SE Europe, SW Asia and eastwards to N India.
Altitude range
c. 1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 11036.
Notes
First record for Somalia and Africa (at 9°59´N, 44°57´E).
GALIUM tenuissimum Bieb. [family RUBIACEAE]
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