West-Asian Galium is a dichotomously branched small annual herb with
4-angled stems with retrorsely scabrid angles. Leaves are arranged in
whorls of 4-6, 1-1.5 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, oblanceolate, retrorsely
scabrid along margin, tip mucronate-cuspidate. Flower cymes are 1-flowered
on 1.5-2.5 cm long stalk. Flowers are white, 1.5 mm across. Fruit is
didymous, 2-3 mm across, covered with long slightly hooked hairs without
broad base. West-Asian Galium is found in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and
probably parts of India.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed at Tikkar Tal Lake, Morni, Haryana.
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