Botanical name: Galium rebae    Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)

Red Tiny Bedstraw is a spreading to prostrate perennial herb, with stems 13-40 cm or more, weak, hairless, unarmed; internodes 0.7-3.2 cm. Flowers are reddish purple or crimson, 1.95-3.2 mm across, petals ovate, 0.8-1.5 x 0.5-0.9 mm, the point at tip very short or absent. Anthers are pale yellow or yellowish orange. Style united for about 0.3 mm, bifid at tip. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in 2-4 flowered cymes; flower-cluster-stalks shorter to longer than the subtending leaf; flower-stalks 0.1-3.2 mm, unequal. Leaves are arranged in whorls of 6, stalkless, narrowly lanceshaped, linear lanceshaped or uppermost narrowly ovate inverted-lanceshaped; those of main branches 5.2-10.2 x 0.6-1.4 mm, 5.9-10 x as long as broad; tip pointed, terminating in a short awn; surfaces hairless, venation penniverved. Mericarps (immature) are about 0.7 x 0.5 mm, blackish, finely verruculose, without hooks. Red Tiny Bedstraw is found from Himalayas to S. Central China, at altitudes of 2000-4000 m.

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