Galium suecicum, (Sterner) Ehrend.

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 : 32

105. G. suecicum (Sterner) Ehrend. , Sitz.-Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Math.-Nat. Kl., Abt. I) 169: 417 (1960)

(G. pumilum subsp. suecicum Sterner ).

Plant greenish when dry, caespitose, with few non-flowering stems at anthesis. Stems 8-20(-30) cm, ascending to erect, slender, less than 0-7 mm in diameter, glabrous or with patent hairs; middle internodes 4-6 cm, 3-6 times as long as the leaves. Leaves 7-12(-15) x (0-6-)0-9-l-3(-l- 7)mm, in whorls of (6-)7-8(-9), linear-oblanceolate, 7|-10| times as long as wide. Inflorescence occupying more than half of the stem, laxly pyramidal, the partial inflorescences dense; pedicels c. 0-5 mm. Corolla l-2‘3(-3)mm in diameter. Fruit 1-1-2 mm, acutely papillose. 2л = 22. Dry grassland and scrub. • N.E. Germany, S. & C. Sweden. Ge Su.