Galium divaricatum, Pourret ex Lam.

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 : 36

140. G. divaricatum Pourret ex Lam. , Encycl. Méth. Bot. 2: 580 (1788)

( G. parisiense subsp. divaricatum (Pourret ex Lam.) Rouy & Camus ).

Stems 5-30 cm, erect, more slender and less strongly retrorsely aculeolate than 139, nearly smooth above. Leaves 4-10 x 0-3- l-5(-2) mm, in whorls of 6-8, narrowly lanceolate to linear, the upper often slightly hispid above; the margin and midrib antrorsely scabrid; margin not or slightly revolute. Inflorescence broadly ovoid, lax; partial inflorescences with 5-13 flowers at the 2 nodes below the central flower; peduncles 5-20 mm, (2-)3-7(-10) times as long as the pedicels; pedicels 0-5-2-5 mm, filiform, somewhat deflexed after anthesis. Corolla 0-5-1 mm in diameter, yellowish-red, glabrous; lobes not or shortly apiculate. Fruit 0-5-0-7 mm, glabrous, finely papillose. 2« = 44. Dry, open habitats. S. Europe, extending locally northwards to N. W. France and S.E. Czechoslovakia. Al?Az BI Bu Co Cr Cz Ga Gr Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Sa Si Tu [Be He].

Not very variable, and usually quite distinct from 139 and 141.