Asperula oetaea, (Boiss.) Heldr. ex Halacsy

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 8

14. A. oetaea (Boiss.) Heldr. ex Halácsy , Consp. FI. Graec. 1: 739 (1901).

Stems 5-26 cm, laxly caespitose, procumbent to ascending, slender and more or less herbaceous, with hairs less than 0.1 mm especially at the base, glabrous above; lower internodes more or less short, the middle ones 3-5 times as long as the leaves. Leaves (7-)10-25 x(0-6-)0*8-l*8 mm, lanceolate to linear, usually blackish when dry, more or less glabrous, with a hyaline awn O-3-O-8 mm; midrib comprising less than 0.5 of width of leaf; margin more or less flat, usually shortly ciliate. Inflorescence usually unbranched and elongate, with 3 (rarely more) more or less capitate flower-clusters; bracts distinctly longer than fruits, lanceolate. Corolla 5*7-6*9 mm, hypocrateriform to narrowly infundibuliform, pink, glabrous and smooth; tube 2-2| times as long as lobes; lobes distinctly appendiculate. Fruit papillose, glabrous. Damp places in the subalpine zone. • S. Greece. Gr.