Galium valentinum, Lange

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 : 30

92. G. valentinum Lange , Vid. Meddel. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kjobenhavn 1881: 95 (1882).

Laxly caespitose, with filiform stolons. Stems 10-20 cm, slender, retrorsely aculeolate. Leaves (3 -5-)5-6(-8) x(l-l-)l-3-l-6(-2-4)mm, in whorls of 6-7, 3-4 times as long as wide; upper surface and margin antrorsely scabridulous; hyaline apex short. Inflorescence relatively many-flowered, ovoid; pedicels O-5-O-8 mm, divaricate after flowering. Corolla 1 -7-2 mm in diameter, yellowish, or suffused with red; lobes not apiculate. Fruit c. 1 mm, shining, papillose. Rocky places on limestone. • Mountains of E. & S.E. Spain. Hs.