Asperula gussonii, Boiss.

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12. A. gussonii Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 2(10): 63 (1849).

Shoots densely pulvinate, glaucous-pruinose, glabrous. Stems 3-9 cm; internodes shorter than the leaves. Leaves 4-9 x 1-1*8 mm, narrowly elliptical to broadly linear, often weakly incurved, thickish, shortly acute; midrib robust, but usually comprising less than 0.5 of the width of leaf; margin flat or weakly revolute. Inflorescence compact, few-flowered, usually with a solitary, terminal cluster of 6-15 shortly pedicellate flowers; bracts leaflike. Corolla 6-7 mm, hypocrateriform to narrowly infundibuliform, reddish, glabrous, smooth; tube 2-3 times as long as lobes; lobes obscurely appendiculate. Fruit 1 *2-2 mm, finely papillose, glabrous. Alpine zone. • N. Sicilia (Madonie).?It Si.