Galium graecum

Ssp graecum: Mor iplikçik

Low perennial with strongly woody rootstock to semi-shrub. Stems 4-15 cm, erect to ascending, branched towards base, usually with numerous abbreviated lower internodes , subterete above, quadrangular below, with often laterally enlarged edges, ±loosely hispid, sometimes sublanate. Leaves in whorls of 5-6, 3-8 x 0.4-1 mm, narrowly linear-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, subacute, margins flat to slightly revolute, usually laxly hairy, often with short vegetative shoots in their axils. Inflorescence narrowly cylindrical to elongate-ovoid, with ± subsessile to shortly pedunculate, subglomerate to subcapitate corymbiform cymes, hairy. Bracts c. 1.5-2 mm, linear-elliptic. Pedicels 0.6-2 mm, hispid, Corolla purplish-green to dark purple, c. 1-1.5 mm diam., hispid outside; lobes often erect, ovate, acute to shortly apiculate . Mericarps yellowish, c. 0.5 mm, densely villous on back only, hairs to 0.5 mm. Fl. 5-7. Dry crevices in limestone cliffs, s.l.-600m.

Crete. E. Medit. element.