Galium sudeticum, Tausch

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

108. G. sudeticum Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 18: 347 (1835).

Plant usually blackish when dry, laxly caespitose, with some nonflowering stems at anthesis. Stems (5-)7-20(-30) cm, ascending to erect, stout, glabrous; middle internodes mostly lj-2| times as long as the leaves. Leaves (5-)8-14(-23) x (0-8-)l-l-2(-3-5) mm, in whorls of (6-)7(-8), oblanceolate, 5^-8| times as long as wide, widest just below the hyaline apex, rather thick, those at the base soon deciduous, the margin almost always smooth. Inflorescence broadly obovoid, corymbose; pedicels 1 -5-2 mm, more or less divaricate after flowering. Corolla c. 3 mm in diameter. Fruit c. 1 -3 mm, blackish, papillose. Rocky places, often on basaltic or serpentine soils. • Mountains of N. W. Czechoslovakia and adjacent territories. Cz Ge Po.

The populations of the higher Sudeten mountains approximate to 112.