Galium debile Desv.

Slender marsh-bedstraw (en), Gaillet faible (fr), Gaillet chétif (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Galium

Characteristics

Perennial, drying green to brown; stems slender, weak and straggling, to c. 80 cm long, 4-angled, glabrous, or scabridulous on margins. Lvs and stipules in whorls of 4-(6), subsessile or with petioles to 1 mm long, 4-17 × 0.8-1.5 mm, narrow-linear to narrow-oblanceolate; margins flat or revolute, sometimes scabridulous; apex obtuse or subacute. Lvs of uppermost nodes often smaller. Cymes fairly dense, glabrous, 2-4 from same axis, each with c. 5-10 fls, aggregated in panicles of up to 40 fls; peduncles of variable length, to 1.5 cm long; pedicels usually 0.5-2 mm long, moderately divaricating at fruiting; bracts at base of infl. leaflike, reduced or 0 in highest orders of branches. Corolla 2.5-3.5 mm diam., white; lobes broad-ovate or ovate-oblong, 3-nerved, acute or obtuse. Mericarps c. 1 mm diam., globular, ± papillate.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread barochory
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Images

Flower

Galium debile flower picture by Christiane Mouls (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Galium debile world distribution map, present in Albania, Bulgaria, Algeria, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, and Turks and Caicos Islands

Conservation status

Galium debile threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:749807-1
WFO ID wfo-0000968810
COL ID 3F5LW
BDTFX ID 28979
INPN ID 99410
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Galium debile f. terrestre Galium aragonesii Galium creticum Galium debile Galium krymense Galium debile f. submersum Galium fruticosum Galium junceum Galium congestum Galium constrictum Galium constrictum var. congestum Galium constrictum var. creticum Galium constrictum var. debile Galium palustre var. debile Galium debile var. congestum Galium debile var. humile Galium palustre var. congestum Galium palustre var. constrictum Galium palustre subsp. debile Galium palustre var. humile