Asperula scutellaris, Vis.

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 : 14

62. A. scutellaris Vis. , Fl. Dalm. 3: 12 (1852).

Stems (10—) 15-50(-60) cm, ascending, slender, glabrous, rarely shortly hairy; internodes mostly only slightly longer than the leaves. Leaves 15-30 x 0-5-2 mm, in whorls of (4-)6-7(-l 1), lanceolate to linear, more or less shortly acuminate; vein prominent beneath; margin revolute and shortly ciliate. Inflorescence lax, the pedicels 1-3 mm; bracts shorter than the fruits, ovate, navicular, connate at base. Corolla 1-1-8 mm, cup-shaped, white to reddish; tube 0-4-0-8 mm; lobes 0-7-1 mm, triangular, shortly acuminate, shortly hairy. Style much shorter than ovary; stigma globose. Fruit 1-5-1-8 mm, glabrous. 2« = 22. Rocky places. • Jugoslavia and Albania. Al Ju?Rm.

The variation within this species described by B. Korica, Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 102: 339-364 (1955) is scarcely worth taxonomic recognition.