Galium pseudohelveticum, 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 : 32-33

113. G. pseudohelveticum Ehrend. , Sitz.-Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Math.-Nat. Kl., Abt. I) 169: 415 (1960).

Plant rather dirty green when dry, densely caespitose, with stolons, a tap-root and numerous ascending non-flowering and flowering stems. Stems (5—)8—12(—15) cm, glabrous and smooth; middle intemodes

1—2-5 cm. Leaves (5—)7—11 (—14) x l-2(-2-2) mm, in whorls of 7-8, mostly 5-6| times as long as wide, cuneate-oblanceolate, somewhat thick and fleshy, more or less dull; margin antrorsely ciliolate, flat; hyaline apex c. 0-3 mm. Inflorescence corymbose, rather few-flowered and with few bracts, the ultimate branches often ebracteate; pedicels 1 -6-2-2 mm, more or less erect and scarcely elongating after flowering. Corolla 3-4 mm in diameter, yellowish-white; lobes acute. Fruit 1 -4-1-7 mm, more or less smooth, reddish-brown. 2n = 44. Calcareous and schistose screes. • S. W. Alps. Galt.

An allopolyploid species, not always clearly separable from the diploid and tetraploid plants of 112 and 114.