Asperula abbreviata, (Halacsy) Rech. fil.

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17. A. abbreviata (Halácsy) Rech. fil. , Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Nat. Kl. (Wien) 105(2, 1): 132 (1943).

Shoots green, straight. Stems 2-10 cm, pulvinate, with curved hairs up to 0*3 mm or glabrous; middle internodes 1—2(—3) times as long as the leaves. Leaves 7-15 x 0*5-0- 8 mm, linear to acicular, more or less weakly patent-falcate, shortly hairy, sometimes glabrescent, with awn up to 0-6 mm; midrib comprising more than 0.5 of width of leaf; margin distinctly revolute. Inflorescence unbranched, compactly spicate, with (1—)2(—3) clusters each of 3-5(-9) flowers. Corolla 3 - 5-4-5 mm, broadly hypocrateriform to narrowly infundibuliform,?yellow, glabrous; tube 2-3 times as long as lobes; lobes shortly appendiculate. Fruit c. 1 *5 mm, papillose, glabrous. • Mountains of the Kikladhes (Naxos, Amorgos). Gr.