Galium monachinii, Boiss. & Heldr.

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 : 34-35

130. G. monachinii Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 2(10): 67 (1849).

Stems (2-)4-10(-16) cm, ascending, weak, retrorsely aculeolate especially below, almost smooth above, weakly 4-angled. Leaves 4-7 x 1 *5-2 mm, in whorls of 5-6,

broadly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, shortly awned, with sparse, short hairs above; margin and midrib softly antrorsely scabrid, the margin scarcely revolute. Inflorescence ovoid; partial inflorescences 1- to 3-flowered; pedicels rather stout, straight, more or less erect. Corolla 1 - 5-2 mm in diameter, pinkish, glabrous; lobes shortly apiculate. Fruit (excluding setae) 2-5-3-5 mm, orbicular-ovoid, with rather dense hooked setae. 2n = 22. Stony places in the mountains. • S.E. Greece, Kriti, Karpathos. CrGr.