Galium marchandii, Roemer & Schultes

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 : 31

99. G. marchandii Roemer & Schultes , Syst. Veg. 3: 528 (1818)

( G. lapeyrousianutn Jordan ).

Like 98 but usually dark greybrown to blackish when dry, laxly to densely caespitose; stems (5-)7-20(-40) cm, rather stout, usually glabrous, scarcely reddish at the base; middle internodes often c. 1-2 times as long as the leaves; leaves (5-)7-17(-23) x(0-7) 1 • 1—2-3(—2-9) mm, in whorls of (7-)8-9(-10), oblanceolate, widest in the distal quarter, 7-9 times as long as wide, thickish, antrorsely scabrid, rarely glabrescent or with patent hairs; inflorescence broadly pyramidal to corymbose; pedicels 1-1-5 mm; corolla (2-)2-5-3 (-4) mm in diameter; mean diameter of pollen grains more than 22 /*; fruit c. 1 -5 mm. 2л= 88. Woods and grassland. • Mountains ofN. Spain and C. France. Ga Hs. Very polymorphic, and connected through transitional forms with 96, 97 and 98 and especially with 103 north of the Pyrenees.