Galium dumosum
Galium dumosum
Yurt yoğurtotu
Low perennial with strongly woody rootstock, sometimes subshrub, 10-25 cm. Stems numerous, thickish or ± slender, stiff to flexuous, suberect to pendulous, with strongly laterally enlarged cartilaginous edges, ± sparingly branched in upper 1/2, loosely to densely hispid or lanate. Leaves in whorls of 4-8, 4-7 x 1-2 mm, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute to acuminate, ± loosely hispid, with margins flat to slightly revolute, often with vegetative buds in axils. Inflorescence elongate-cylindrical or pyramidal, hairy, with ± short, slightly patent branches. Bracts c. 1-3 mm, lanceolate to oblong, sparingly hairy. Pedicels c. 1-5 mm, ± sparingly hairy to glabrous. Corolla brownish-purple, c. 1.25-2 mm diam., hairy outside, lobes broadly triangular-ovate, aristate . Ovary densely hispid all over. Mericarps c. 0.5-0.7 mm, broadly reniform to subglobose, sparingly hispid, hairs to 0.55 mm. Fl. 5-9. Dry rocks, rocky steppe, 800-2500 m.
Endemic.
