Galium canum
Galium canum
İt iplikçiği
Low perennial with ± strongly woody rootstock to semi-shrub, Stems 10-25 cm, frequently pendulous, branched, sometimes in upper 1/2 only, sharply quadrangular above, almost terete, whitish 4-furrowed because of the strongly enlarged cartilaginous edges in its lower parts, densely lanuginose-hirsute to loosely hairy, internodes strongly abbreviated or to 10-15 mm. Leaves in whorls of 4-6, 6-10 x 2-8mm, lanceolate to broadly ovate or obovate, acute to obtuse, margins flat to ±revolute, usually densely hairy to sublanuginose, Short vegetative shoots in leaf-axils often obsolete to absent. Inflorescence cylindrical to pyramidal, hairy, with branches usually well developed. Bracts 1,5-4 mm, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate or elliptic. Pedicels c. 1-6 mm, capillary, strongly divaricate. Corolla purple, more rarely yellowish, hairy outside, 1,8-2,5 mm diam.; lobes often spreading, ovate to oblong, aristate . Mericarps c. 0,75-1,25 mm, broadly reniform, dark brown, entirely hairy , often sublanuginose, hairs straight or hooked, 0,05-0,4 mm. Fl. 5-7.
1. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 6-10 x 2-8 mm, with usually flat margins; pedicels to 6 mm; plant lanate-hirsute to subtomentose; stems ± flexuous, loosely branched ..............................................................................................................................subsp.ovatum
1. Leaves narrower, to 3 mm broad only, with usually ± revolute margins; pedicels to 3 min; indumentum and stems various
2. Leaves linear-lanceolate to ovate, 4-10 x 1-2 mm, with strongly revolute margins, in often strongly approximated whorls; inflorescence elongate pyramidal to subcylindrical, with short, ±patent branches; plant often subtomentose; stems flexuous to ± stiff ..........subsp. canum
2. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, more rarely lanceolate to ovate, 6-9 x 2-3 mm, with ± revolute margins, usually in more remote whorls; in florescence pyramidal, With only slightly patent, subelongate branches; plant often very loosely hairy, with stiff ±thickish stems .........subsp. antalyense
