Galium paschaleForssk. Gök İplikçik (in Turkish)

Galium paschaleForssk. - Gök İplikçik (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Bluish-green perennial, with rootstock, rarely with short creeping shoots. Stems to 100 cm, erect to ascending, terete towards base, with 4 faint ridges above, glabrous; young shoots glaucous-pruinose. Leaves in whorls of (6−)8−10, (15−)25−40(−60) × 1.5−3.5(−5.5) mm, linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate-oblong to oblong, mucronate to cuspidate or gradually acuminate, with several rows of minute antrorse teeth along the slightly revolute margins, glabrous, paler and usually glaucous and ± pruinose beneath, only rarely blackening when dry. Inflorescence lax, broadly ovoid, glabrous; peduncles and pedicels capillary. Pedicels 1.5−7 mm, suberect to slightly spreading after anthesis. Corolla white, cup-shaped to subrotate, (2−)2.5−3 mm diam, lobes ovate, obtuse to shortly apiculate. Mericarps broadly ellipsoid to subglobular, c. 1.25−1.75 mm diam. finely rugulose, ± pruinose.

 

Flowering time: June−August.

Habitat: Mixed deciduous woods, clearings, 70−2700 m.

 

Reference:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Galium paschale Forsskål, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 800.

Public Description:

Galium paschale, known as “gök iplikçik” in Turkish, is native to Türkiye, Bulgaria and Greece. It is a bluish-green perennial plant with white flowers, and grows up to 100 cm in length. It blooms between June and August and is found in mixed deciduous woods and clearings.

 

References:

Anonymous (2018) http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=8616/,Accessed date: 24.01.2018.

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.