Asperula chlorantha, Boiss. & Heldr.

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 : 14

61. A. chlorantha Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(6): 90 (1859).

Stems (15-)2O-45(-55) cm, woody at base, ascending, slender, mostly scabrid with forwardly-directed teeth on the angles; internodes mostly longer than the leaves. Leaves 9-15(-20) x 0-3—1 mm, in whorls of up to 6, linear to filiform, more or less long-acuminate; vein scarcely prominent beneath; margin weakly revolute and scabridulous. Inflorescence lax; pedicels 0-5-3 mm, often recurved; bracts shorter than the fruits, broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, keeled, ciliate on the margin, shortly connate at the base. Corolla 2-3 mm, infundibuliform, glabrous, yellowish; tube 0-4-0-8 mm; lobes 1-2-2-1 mm, narrowly ligulate, shortly acuminate. Style much longer than ovary; stigma globose. Fruit c. 1-5 mm, glabrous. 2« = 22. Rocky places in the montane zone. • Albania and N. W. Greece. Al Gr.