Galium valdepilosum, H. Braun

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 : 31

104. G. valdepilosum H. Braun in Form., Beitr. FI. Mittl. Siidl. Mähr. 43 (1886).

Plant greenish when dry, somewhat caespitose, with few non-flowering shoots at anthesis, with stolons. Stems (9-)15-30(-40)cm, ascending to erect, mostly more than 0-7 mm in diameter, often with patent hairs, reddish at the base; basal internodes very short; middle internodes lł-4ł times as long as the leaves. Leaves (9—)11—18(—24) x 0-8-2-3mm, in whorls of (6-)7-8(-9), linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, straight, (6—)8—16(—18) times as long as wide, rather thin. Inflorescence ovoid-elongate to broadly pyramidal, the partial inflorescences somewhat dense; pedicels 0-8-1 - 1 mm. Corolla 2-3-5 mm in diameter; lobes acute. Fruit 1-1-5 mm, obtusely to acutely papillose. 2л = 22,44. Dry grasslandand open woods. • From S.E. Germany to W. Ukraine', S. & C. Denmark. Au Cz Da Ge Po Rs (W).

A variable species with a disjunct distribution. The populations from Denmark have been distinguished as subsp. slesvicense (Sterner) Ehrend. , Pl. Syst. Evol. 124: 177 (1975).