Galium minutulum

Minuscule bedstraw
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Gentianales
Family:Rubiaceae
Genus:Galium
Species: G. minutulum
Binomial name
Galium minutulum

Galium minutulum is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae. It is native to Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. Some of the Italian collections are located on the island of Sardinia, others inside Arcipelago Toscano National Park, located on a chain of islands off the coast of Tuscany.[1][2] Many of the French populations are on the Hyères Islands in Provence.[3]

Galium minutulum is a diminutive plant, rarely more than 10 cm tall, and usually trailing along the ground. Flowers are generally less than 1 mm in diameter.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Galium minutulum
  2. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Caglio minuscolo
  3. ↑ Médail, F. et al. 2000. Biologie et écologie du gaillet nain (Galium minutulum Jordan, Rubiaceae) sur les îles d'Hyères (Var, France); implications pour la conservation de l'espèce. Acta Botanica Gallica: Botany Letters 147(3):
  4. ↑ Flores Alpes, Gaillet minuscule
  5. ↑ Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan. 1846. Observations sur Plusieurs Plantes Nouvelles 3: 182.


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