Galium tenuissimum M.Bieb.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Galium

Characteristics

Herbs, annual, erect. Stems (10-)30-50(-60) cm tall, with strong, intricate and divaricate branching from base, 4-angled, usually retrorsely aculeolate, more rarely glabrescent to smooth. Leaves at middle stem region in whorls of 6-8, subsessile or sessile; blade drying papery, linear to oblanceolate, (4-)8-15(-20) × 0.5-1(-2) mm, mostly glabrous and sparsely to densely antrorsely aculeolate near margins and on veins abaxially, base straight to acute, apex acute to acuminate-aristate; vein 1. Inflorescences broadly paniculate, very lax and loosely divaricate, cymes axillary and terminal, with 3-11(-14) flowers; axes glabrous or sparsely hispidulous; bracts none or small, leaflike; pedicels 3-15 mm, strongly elongating in fruit up to 20 mm. Ovary obovoid to ellipsoid, ca. 0.8 mm, glabrous. Corolla whitish, pale yellow, or greenish, rotate to slightly cup-shaped, 1.5-2 mm in diam., glabrous; lobes 4, oblong-elliptic, acute to aristate. Mericarps ellipsoid to obovoid, ca. 1 × 1.25 mm, glabrous, smooth or ± tuberculate. Fl. and fr. May-Jul.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.5
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Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Distribution

Galium tenuissimum world distribution map, present in Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Romania, Russian Federation, Somalia, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Ukraine

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:750728-1
WFO ID wfo-0000970365
COL ID 3F6LG
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Synonyms

Galium filiforme Galium tenuissimum Galium tenuissimum var. adrianopolitanum

Lower taxons

Galium tenuissimum f. tenuissimum Galium tenuissimum f. trichophorum