Asperula muscosa, Boiss. & Heldr.

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 : 13

59. A. muscosa Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(2): 109 (1856).

Stems (7—)10—16(—20) cm, herbaceous, ascending, slender, caespitose, mostly shortly hairy; internodes usually shorter than the leaves. Leaves 9-12 x О-8-1-5 mm, in whorls of 6-8, narrowly lanceolate to linear, long-acuminate, not or scarcely scabrid; vein more or less prominent beneath; margin plane, shortly ciliate. Flowers solitary in the leaf-whorls; pedicels 1-2 mm; bracts leaf-like, much longer than the fruits. Corolla 3-4-5 mm, infundibuliform, pale yellow; tube 2-5-3 mm; lobes 0-5-1-5 mm, ovate, glabrous. Style about as long as ovary; stigma shortly davate. Fruit c. 1-5 mm, glabrous. 2л = 22. Coniferous montane woods. • E.C. Greece (Olimbos). Gr.