Asperula staliana, Vis.

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6. A. staliana Vis. , Fl. Dalm. 3: 11 (1852).

Shoots always glaucous-pruinose, laxly caespitose. Stems 10-35 cm, ascending, more or less woody and glabrous or shortly hairy at the base; middle internodes 1-2 times as long as the leaves. Leaves 10-30 x 1 *5-3*5 mm, thickish, acute, in pairs on upper two-thirds of stem; midrib comprising less than 0.5 of width of leaf; margin revolute. Inflorescence ovoid, moderately dense; partial inflorescences condensed to more or less capitate. Corolla 3-8 mm, hypocrateriform to narrowly infundibuliform, pink, glabrous outside; tube 2-3 times as long as the distinctly appendiculate lobes. Fruit c. 2 mm, papillose, otherwise glabrous, glaucous-pruinose. Maritime rocks. • Islands off the coast of N. W. Jugoslavia. Ju.