Rubiaceae
Galium

Galium setaceum Lam.

First published in Encycl. 2: 584 (1788)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. to NW. India and NE. Tropical Africa. It is an annual and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Annual, more or less erect, up to 30 cm tall, but usually much smaller; stems slender, glabrous to sparsely pubescent
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly in whorls of 4–6; blades filiform to narrowly linear or oblanceolate, 5–17 x up to c. 1 mm, acute but not awned at the apex, scabrid with±forwardly directed hairs along margins
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Cymes lax, with filiform bracts; pedicels 1–8 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla purplish or greenish, c. 0.5–0.8 mm in diam. Mericarps c. 0.5–0.8 mm long, densely covered with±hooked hairs to glabrous.
Distribution
N2, 3 Djibouti, the Mediterranean Region, Middle East and eastwards to Iran.
Ecology
Altitude range 650–900 m.
Note
First record for Somalia.
[FSOM]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

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