Galium consanguineum Boiss.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Galium

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, often caespitose from a stout and woody rootstock with rhizomes. Stems erect, to 1 m tall, 4-angled, glabrous to puberulent at least at nodes, smooth. Leaves in whorls of 6-12, sessile; blade drying papery, linear-oblanceolate to linear, 20-28 × 1-3 mm, glabrous, more rarely ± hairy, base acute to straight, margin shortly to strongly revolute and usually antrorsely aculeolate, apex acute and mucronate; vein 1. Inflorescences narrowly paniculate with main stems and short lateral and terminal, few-to several-or many-flowered, rather congested cymes; peduncles glabrous, smooth; pedicels 0.5-3 mm, subtended by leaflike bracts. Ovary subglobose to obovoid, 0.5-0.8 mm, smooth, glabrous or ± hispidulous with straight hairs. Corolla yellow, rotate, ca. 3 mm in diam., glabrous, lobed for 3/4 or more; lobes 4(or 5), lanceolate-oblong, acute to acuminate. Mericarps ellipsoid to obovoid, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm, glabrous or ± hispidulous with straight trichomes. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 0.65 - 0.8
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Distribution

Galium consanguineum world distribution map, present in China, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, and Turks and Caicos Islands

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:749756-1
WFO ID wfo-0000968735
COL ID 6JVKK
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Synonyms

Galium consanguineum Galium karduchorum Galium majmechense Galium kurdicum Galium subvelutinum subsp. kurdicum Galium subvelutinum var. kurdicum Galium consanguineum subsp. majmechense Galium verum var. consanguineum