Galium capitatum, Bory & Chaub.

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136. G. capitatum Bory & Chaub. in Bory, Expéd. Sci. Morée 3(2): 54 (1832).

Stems 9-35cm, ascending, bifurcatingfrom thebase, retrorsely aculeolate below, hairy to glabrescent above. Leaves 5-13 x 0-6-3 mm, in whorls of 6-9, the lower oblanceolate, the upper narrowly lanceolate to linear, acute or with a short awn, blackish when dry, glabrous, or hairy (especially above); margin and midrib antrorsely scabrid, the margin somewhat revolute. Inflorescence broadly ovoid; partial inflorescences 5-8 mm in diameter, capitate, dense, many-flowered, with 10-15 flowers at the 2 nodes below the central flower; pedicels 0-5-1 -5 mm, slender, more or less erect. Corolla 0-8-1 -6 mm in diameter, reddish, glabrous (rarely hairy); lobes not or shortly apiculate (appendages less than 0- 1 mm). Fruit 0-8-1 -5 mm, glabrous, papillose, rarely with straight or curved hairs. Cultivated and waste ground. • S. & C. Greece. Gr.