Galium erythrorrhizon, Boiss. & Reuter

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 : 23

31. G. erythrorrhizon Boiss. & Reuter , Pugillus 51 (1852)

( G. debeauxii Degen & Hervier ).

Caespitose; rhizome woody, branched. Stems 2-5-6 cm, ascending, slender, 4-angled, shortly hairy. Leaves 5-6 x 1-2 mm, in whorls of 4-6, widely to narrowly linear, acute, not awned, shining, coriaceous, sparsely and shortly hairy; margin more or less recurved. Inflorescence few-flowered, squarrose, leafy; pedicels 1-3 mm, deflexed after flowering. Corolla 2-5-3-5 mm in diameter, rotate, yellowish, glabrous; lobes shortly apiculate. Fruit shining, glabrous. Mountain rocks and screes. • S. Spain (Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Cazorla). Hs.