Galium pumilum, Murray

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 : 31

103. G. pumilum Murray , Prodr. Stirp. Gotting. 44 (1770)

( G. asperum Schreber , G. laeve Thuill. , G. sylvestre Pollich , non Scop.).

Like 102 but greenish-brown when dry, laxly caespitose, with few stolons; stems (10-)15-30(-70) cm, not red at the base; basal internodes very short, with deciduous leaves; middle internodes mostly 2-4 times as long as the leaves; leaves (8-) 10-16 (-30)x (l-)l«2-l-6(-3) mm, in whorls of up to (7-)8-9(-10), usually narrowly oblanceolate and more or less falcate; inflorescence rather lax, usually with rather short branches for less than half its length; pedicels 1-1-5 mm; corolla 2-3 mm in diameter; fruit smooth to obtusely papillose. 2л = (66), 88. Open woods and grassland. • W. &C. Europe, extending eastwards to the Kaliningradskaja Oblasť. Au Be Br Cz Da Ga Ge He Ho Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (В) [Fe Su]. Rather variable, approaching 104, and connected by hybrid intermediates with it, with 88, 89, 99 and with octoploid populations of 102 and 112.