Galium incanum
Galium incanum
Ssp centrale: Ana iplikçik; Ssp elatius: Gür iplikçik; Ssp incanum: Külah iplikçiği;
Ssp libanoticum: Hatay iplikçiği; Ssp pseudocornigerum: Yalancı iplikçik
Herbaceous to suffruticose, caespitose perennial. Stems 2.5-40 cm, prostrate to erect, obtuse-angled, usually hairy or pubescent, rarely glabrous, with distinct mainly basal short vegetative shoots bearing densely imbricate leaves. Cauline leaves in whorls of 6, 5-15 x 0.5-1.2 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, subacute or hyaline-mucronulate, with hyaline apex to 0.4 mm, flat or margin ± revolute, ± densely hirsute or puberulent , sometimes glabrescent or glabrous, green or glaucous, sometimes nigrescent on drying; vein 0.125-0.4 mm broad beneath. Thyrses ovoid to cylindrical, with short lower branches or reduced and ± hidden by uppermost leaves. Pedicels usually equalling flowers. Corolla white or ± purplish to brownish-green, infundibular, 1.75-2.25 mm, 2-5 mm diam., lobes lanceolate, attenuate at base, subcucullate, acute or apiculate at apex. Ovary and mericarps flattened globose or ovoid, rarely elongate, glabrous, pubescent or hispid, calyx teeth obsolete to lacking. Fl. 5-8. Calcareous rocks, scree, steppe, open grassland, 900-2900 m,
1. Stems 10-20 cm, ± erect, densely imbricately leafy at base, with distinct short vegetative shoots; inflorescence many-flowered subsp. elatius
1. Stems usually less than 10 cm, erect to ascending; basal short shoots usually rather obsolete; inflorescence ± reduced
2. Ovary and fruit ± glabrous; inflorescence never hidden by uppermost leaves; corolla c. 2-3.75 mm diam.; leaves to 15 x 1.2 mm
3. Plant nigrescent on drying; leaves hirsute with hairs longer than 0.1 mm, sometimes glabrescent to glabrous, ±shining subsp. incanum
3. Plant remaining green or glaucous on drying; leaves often puberulent with hairs shorter than 0.075 mm to glabrous, ±dull subsp. centrale
2. Ovary and fruit usually hispid; corolla 3-5 mm diam.; leaves not more than 8 mm
4. Inflorescence very reduced, often hidden by uppermost leaves; leaves 4-8 x 0.4-0.8 mm, linear; stems to 5 cm subsp. pseudocornigerum
4. Inflorescence projecting, not hidden by leaves; leaves 4-6 x 0.6-1.25 mm, linear-oblanceolate to -elliptic; stems to 10 cm subsp.libanoticum
