GALIUML.BEDSTRAW

GALIUML. - BEDSTRAW

Scientific Description:

Low subshrubs, perennial or annual herbs. Leaves usually in whorls of 4−14. Inflorescence thyrsoid, broadly paniculate or reduced. Flowers with pedicels usually longer than ovary, without bracteoles (prophylls); hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous or dioecious. Calyx generally obsolete, rarely persistent and enlarged in fruit. Corolla (3−)4-merous, rotate, crateriform to infundibular, with lobes ± longer than tube, white, whitish, pale to bright yellow, yellowish-green, pink or dark reddish-brown. Style bifid to bipartite with globose stigmas. Fruit with 2 dry subhemispherical, ovoid or cylindrical, smooth, verrucose or rugose, glabrous to hairy (sometimes with hooked hairs) mericarps, rarely somewhat fleshy.

Reference:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Galium L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 767.

Public Description:

Galium, commonly known as “bedstraw”, is naturally distributed in the temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. There are approximately 659 species in the world and 105 species (132 taxa) in Türkiye. They are annual and perennial herbaceous plants with white, whitish, pale to bright yellow, yellowish-green, pink or dark reddish-brown flowers.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium /,Accessed date: 30.06.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Rubiaceae/Galium///,Accessed date: 30.06.2016

Karabacak E (2012) Galium L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 821–831.