Asperula serotina

Kaya belumotu

Stems 20-45 cm, erect to ascending, ± virgate, more pseudodichotomously branched than A. antalyensis, quadrangular with ridges distinctly projecting, scarcely scabrid; internodes 20-45 mm, shorter towards ± puberulent base. Leaves caducous, in whorls of 4-6, 10-18 x 0.6-1.2 mm, narrowly oblanceolate, subobtuse to acute, with revolute, somewhat scabrid margins; vein thin, 1/7- 1/ 10 x leaf-breadth, not projecting below. Inflorescence ± paniculate, broadly pyramidal, many-flowered, ± 1-sided, with linear bracts. Peduncles 0-3 mm, glabrous, Bracteoles c. 0.5 mm, lanceolate with smooth margins. Pedicels glabrous, 0.2-0.4 mm, usually erect in fruit. Corolla greenish outside, purplish inside, rotate, 2.5-3 mm diam. with ovate, filiform-apiculate lobes. Anthers subglobose, c. 0.2 mm. Style exserted with globose stigmas. Mericarps 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. Fl. 6-7. Limestone rocks, 500-1500 m.

Endemic. E. Medit. element.