Rubiaceae

Galium articulatum

Galium L. Galium articulatum LAM. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: nemli çayırlar, çalılıklar Minimum yükseklik: 1600 Maksimum yükseklik: 2450 Endemik: - Element: Karadeniz (Dağ) Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: G. Rusya, Kafkasya Bulunduğu kareler :A9

G. articulatum Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1:260 (1792). Syn: G. rubioides sensu Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1:102 (1808) non L. (1753); G. rubioides L.var.erio-phyllum Bordz. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Kiev 12-13:36 (1931)! Ic: Buxbaum, Cent. 2:30, t. 29 (1728); Fl. URSS 23: t. 19 f. 2 (1958).   Perennial with rootstock and rooting stolons. Stems 30-100 cm, stout, erect to ascending, quadrangular except for lower internodes, glabrous above, ± puberulent towards base, branched in upper half. Leaves (20-)55-65 x 10-20(-35) mm, lanceolate-ovate, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, broadest below middle, obtuse, ± coriaceous, scabrid along margins and veins beneath and ± softly hairy mainly on lower surface, sometimes scabrid only. Inflorescence broadly ovoid, many-flowered, ± glabrous, bracts obovate to obovate-oblong, scabrid-ciliolate to hairy; pedicels 1-3 mm, ± spreading. Corolla yellowish (?), 3-4 mm diam., lobes broadly elliptic, subapiculate. Ovary and mericarps glabrous, inflated when ripe, with loosening pericarp. Fl. 7-8. Wet meadows and scrub, 1600-2450 m.   Type: 'Cruciata orientalis latifolia erecta glabra', Tournefort (holo. P-Tourn. 410).   N.E. Anatolia. A9 Çoruh: Güney nr Ardanuç, on Şah Da., 2450 m, 24 vii 1927, Shelkovnikov & Kara-Murza! Ardanuç, 1600 m, Karamanoğlu 123!   S. Russia, Caucasia. Euxine (mt.) element. The second specimen is incomplete: the lower parts are lacking. The upper half of the stem is glabrous and the leaves are scabrid only. Close to G. rubioides L. which differs mainly in its more lax inflorescences with flowers to 5(-6) mm diam., on pedicels to 5 mm and its usually narrower, scabrid - not softly hairy - leaves.