Galium shinasii
Galium shinasii
Levent iplikçiği
Dwarf, caespitose perennial plant with many headed rootstock, suffruticose at base. Stem 1.5–6 cm long, fragile, prostrate-ascending to erect, many branched at base, glabrous to slightly puberulent, sometimes slightly winged on nerves, upper internodes elongate to 5 mm. Leaves in whorls of mostly 4, rarely 6, linear-lanceolate to narrow elliptic, 2–8 × 0.6–1.3 mm, 1 veined, glabrous to slightly puberulent, revolute at margin. Inflorescense dicashium, mostly terminal and also axillary, 8 to 75 flowered per stem; bracteoles absent. Pedicel glabrous, 1.5–2.5 mm in flowers, 2–5 mm in fruit. Calyx absent. Corolla 4 merous, yellowish-green to reddish-green, 1.2–1.8 mm diam; usually conical or campanulate, rarely infundibular; tube very reduced; lobes 0.5–1 × 0.4–0.7 mm, glabrous, triangular to lanceolate, mucronate at apex and apex incurved on petal inner surface. Stamen 0.4-0.6 mm long; anther yellow. Ovary 0.4–0.5 mm diam, dorsal and ventral surface of with densely transparent tubercles, lateral surface 0.2–0.4 mm spreading to patent hairy. Fruit depressed subglobose in fleshy, 0.5–0.75 mm, dorsal and ventral surface of with densely transparent tubercles, lateral surface 0.2–0.4 mm spreading to patent hairy.
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