Galium degenii, Bald

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 : 23

30. G. degenii Bald , ex Degen, österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 45: 131 (1895)

(inch G. ossaeum Halácsy ).

Forming a flat and lax cushion. Stems 5-20 cm, arising from a slender stock, 4-angled, densely hairy. Leaves 3-8 x 0-8-1 mm, in whorls of up to 6, linear to narrowly lanceolate, shortly awned, densely hairy; margin revolute. Inflorescence ovoid, compact, with fewflowered cymes, leafy; pedicels somewhat shorter to more than twice as long as flowers, divaricate. Corolla 3-4 mm in diameter, rotate, yellowish, hairy externally; lobes shortly apiculate. Fruit densely hairy. Limestone rock-crevices. • Mountains ofBalkan peninsula, from S. Albania to E.C. Greece. Al Gr Ju.