Galium schultesii, Vest

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 28

76. G. schultesii Vest , Flora (Regensb.) 4: 530 (1821).

Stolons present. Stems 30-120 cm, stout, remote, subterete at the base, with 4 weak ridges, otherwise 4-angled, usually glabrous; young shoots glaucous-pruinose. Leaves 25-60 x (3—)4—8(—12) mm, broadly oblanceolate to elliptical, widest at or above the middle, narrowing abruptly at the apex, glaucous especially beneath, usually blackish when dry; margin with few rows of teeth. Inflorescence usually dense, broadly ovoid; pedicels usually longer than diameter of corolla. Corolla (3-)4-5mm in diameter, rotate; lobes distinctly apiculate. Ovary and fruit more or less pruinose. 2л = 44, 66. Open woodland. • C. á S.E. Europe.?A1 Au Bu Cz Ge Hu Ju Po Rm Rs (B, C, W) Tu.

A variable species; tetraploid and hexaploid plants are very similar and the former have so far been found only in W. Jugoslavia.