Galium balearicum, Briq.

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

91. G. balearicum Briq. , Annu. Cons. Jard. Bot. Genève 11-12: 191 (1908).

Densely caespitose with numerous filiform stolons. Stems 5-10 cm, slender, somewhat rough to almost smooth. Leaves (2-2-)2-5-5 x 0-6-0-9 mm, in whorls of 5-6, the lower ovate, the upper lanceolate, 4-6 times as long as wide; upper surface and margin antrorsely scabrid; hyaline apex short. Inflorescence few-flowered; pedicels 0-8-1 - 1 mm, more or less divaricate after flowering. Corolla 1 -4-2 mm in diameter, bright purple; lobes not apiculate. Fruit c. 1 -2 mm, dull, obtusely papillose. Rocky grassland and scrub on limestone mountains. • Mallorca. BI.