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2. Asperula setosa Jaub. & Spach, III. Pl. Or. 2: 152., t. 82b. 1842-3. Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 30. 1875; Pobed., l.c. 282; Ehrend., l.c. 13; Kitam., l.c. 366; R.R. Stewart, l.c.; Ehrend. & Schonb.-Tem. in Townsend & Guest, Fl. Iraq 4: 590. 1980.
S. NAZIMUDDIN AND M. QAISER
Asperula arvensis Aitch.
Annual, erect herb, 8-20 cm long, subtrichotomously branched, whole plant glabrous except bracts; branchlets filiform. Leaves generally in 6-whorls, sessile, 1-nerved, membranous, minutely scabridulous at margins, 8-16 x 1.5-2.5 mm, elliptic, spathulate or spathulate-linear. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, 5-9-flowered heads; peduncles setose. Bracts leafy, unequal, setose, longer than flowers. Flowers pale or whitish, red, 2-4 (-5) mm long. Corolla-tube infundibuliform, c. 2.5 mm long; lobes ovate, c. 1 mm long. Mericarps subglobose, c. 1.25 mm in diameter, with persistent setose bracts.
Fl. Per.: May-June.
Type: In Persia monte Elwind, Aucher-Eloy 746 (P).
Distribution: Mediterranean Region, Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Chitral).
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