Galium kerneri, Degen & Dorfler

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

29. G. kerneri Degen & Dörfler , Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Nat. Kl. (Wien) 64: 723 (1897).

Sterns 5-15 cm, ascending to erect, slender, stiff, 4-angled, densely hairy. Leaves 3-5 x 0-5-1 mm, usually in whorls of 6, acicular, with a long awn, scarcely changing colour on drying, sparsely hairy above, densely puberulent beneath; margin recurved to the midrib. Inflorescence narrowly cylindrical, interrupted; partial inflorescences short, squarrose, more or less bracteate; pedicels 0-5-2 mm. Corolla 2-3 mm in diameter, rotate, yellowish, glabrous; lobes long-apiculate. Fruit glabrous, finely granulate. 2n = 22. Rockcrevices. • W. Macedonia and S. Albania. Al?Gr Ju.