Asperula hercegovina, Degen

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 : 12

49. A. hercegovina Degen , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 40: 15 (1890).

Stems (4—)8—16(—20) cm, laxly caespitose, ascending to erect, slender, glabrous or hairy. Leaves (13-)15-20(-25) x (l-2-) l-5-2 mm, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or more or less hairy, the margin weakly revolute. Peduncles of capitula 2-3 times as long as the subtending leaves; flowers more or less sessile. Corolla hypocrateriform, purplish-lilac, glabrous; tube (2-5-)3-4 mm; lobes 1 -5-2-5 mm, oblong, more or less flat. Fruit c. 1 -5 mm, glabrous. Subalpine calcareous rocks. • Mountains of Hercegovina and S. Bosna. Ju.

A. pilosa Degen , loc. cit. (1890), described from the Prenj Planina (N. of Mostar), is a more or less strongly hairy variant of 49.