Galium ephedroides, Willk.

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 : 20

9. G. ephedroides Willk. , Linnaea 25: 30 (1852).

Like 8 but stems 35-50 cm; internodes of lateral branches mostly 1—3(—4) cm; leaves 5-10 x 2-3 mm, oblong-elliptical, very soon deciduous; apices of the corolla-lobes usually incurved; fruit c. 1 *5 mm, very finely papillose. Dry rock-crevices. S.E. Spain (Almeria prov.). Hs. (N.W. Africa.) Sect. Hylaea (Griseb.) Ehrend. Perennial herbs with slender rhizomes and subterranean stolons, often smelling of coumarin when dry. Stems smooth or hairy, sometimes aculeolate. Leaves in whorls of 6-9, membranous, with 1 main vein, the margins antrorsely or retrorsely scabrid, apex scarcely hyaline. Inflorescence elongate-pyramidal to corymbose, lax, few-flowered; ultimate branches bracteate or ebracteate. Corolla infundibuliform to rotate, greenish to white; lobes obtuse to apiculate. Fruit dry, ovoid, with hooked hairs.