Asperula setulosa, Boiss.

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 : 11

39. A. setulosa Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 2(10): 61 (1849).

Stems 26-65 cm, procumbent to arcuate-ascending, scarcely rooting, robust, rigid, more or less densely and shortly hispid below, subglabrous above; flowering stems usually with fewer than 20 intemodes, which are c. 3 times as long as the leaves. Leaves (9-)15-20 x (0-5-)0-7-0-8 mm, linear to acicular, acute, rigid, more or less patent; midrib comprising more than | of width of leaf; margin distinctly revolute, scabrid. Bracts coarsely ciliate; pedicels 0-2 mm. Corolla 3-5-5 mm, infundibuliform, usually shortly hispid outside; tube about equalling lobes; lobes distinctly appendiculate. Fruit (2-5-)3-4mm, densely covered with squamiform tubercles. • W. & N. W. coasts of Black Sea (rarely inland). Bu Rm Rs (W,?K).