Asperula tournefortii, Sieber ex Sprengel

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

58. A. tournefortii Sieber ex Sprengel , Syst. Veg. 1: 395 (1824)

(incl. A. majori Barbey ).

Plant glaucous-pruinose; stems (10—)14—30(—35) cm, rigid, stout, more or less woody below, geniculately ascending to erect, glabrous below, puberulent above; internodes mostly as long as the leaves. Leaves 12-15 x 6-10 mm, in whorls of 6(-7), broadly obovate, obtuse, thick, coriaceous; vein scarcely prominent; margin weakly revolute. Inflorescence pyramidal, rather dense, many-flowered, the flowers subsessile; bracts about as long as the fruits, lanceolate, hairy, not connate at the base. Corolla 3-5 mm, infundibuliform, pale yellow, mostly long-hairy; tube c. 3-5 mm; lobes c. 0-7-1-5 mm, triangular. Style about as long as the ovary; stigma shortly davate. Fruit 1-5-2 mm, puberulent. 2л = 22. Calcareous cliffs. S. Aegean region. Cr Gr.