Galium intricatimi, Margot & Reuter

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 : 35

135. G. intricatimi Margot & Reuter , Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 8: 304 (1839)

( G. zacynthium Margot & Reuter ).

Stems 7-35 cm, ascending, usually much-branched from the base, rather slender, retrorsely aculeolate below, usually more or less hairy above. Leaves 4-12 x 1-2-5 mm, in whorls of 6-8, oblanceolate, shortly awned, green, brownish or blackish when dry, glabrous or hairy; margin and midrib antrorsely scabrid; margin scarcely revolute. Inflorescence ovoid; partial inflorescences lax, many-flowered, with 8-12 flowers at the 2 nodes below the central flower; peduncles (1—)2—5 mm; pedicels 1-4 mm, about twice as long as flowers, slender, slightly divaricate. Corolla 1-2 mm in diameter, yellowish-red, glabrous or with sparse hairs externally; lobes apiculate, the appendages 0-1-0-2 mm, less than | as long as the lobes. Fruit 0-6-0-8 mm, with hooked patent hairs or glabrous and papillose. Dry, open habitats. • Greece and S. Albania. Al Gr.

Records from Greece for the closely related G. floribundum Sibth. & Sm., native of W. Anatolia, are obviously erroneous.