Galium mite
Galium mite
Süpürge iplikciği
Subshrub, 30-60 cm, often nigrescent on drying, usually much branched from below. Stems numerous, ± erect or with prostrate to ascending woody bases, ± stiff, mostly absolutely glabrous, rarely sparingly hairy towards base; lower internodes 1.5-2 cm, upper elongate, 3-6.5 cm. Leaves in whorls of 6, lower mostly reflexed, upper spreading, lamina 15-30 x 1-2.5 mm, linear-oblanceolate or -oblong to linear, glabrous or minutely ciliolate towards hyaline, acuminate to rather obtuse apex, margins flat. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal, many-flowered, with spreading branches, ultimate branchings usually dichasial, sometimes monochasial, usually totally glabrous, sometimes very sparingly hairy; pedicels 0.5-2 mm. Lowermost bracts ± leaf-like, upper reduced. Corolla white, 2-3.5 mm diam., tube 0.3-0.4 mm, lobes ovate-lanceolate, usually mucronate. Anthers 0.4-0.6 mm, broadly ellipsoid, yellowish. Mericarps subglobose, 1.5-2.5 mm diam., subgranulate, glabrous. Fl. 6-7. Open rocky slopes, scree, 850-2700 m.
Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.
