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Asperula neglecta (Asperula neglecta)

Description

Asperula neglecta grows as a more or less dense lawn-forming,perennial herbaceous plant.It forms a pile root.It attains growth heights of 2 to 7 (rarely up to 10) centimeters with the weak and quadrangular and more or less hairy,sometimes almost bare stems.The young and non-flowering plants are colored green.The lower internodes are very short;the average leaf distances,on the other hand,are shorter or hardly longer than the leaves. The against-constant,at the top of hyaline designed leaves,along with the similar looking stipules in four-leaf whorls summarized.The basal foliage leaves,with simple,egg-shaped to trapezoidal leaf blades,stand in dense tufts.The short-haired or bare and very thin leaf blades of the stems,which are leathery in the lower leaves,are inverted to a length of 5 to 20 millimeters and a width of 1.3 to 1.5 millimeters-lanceolate to lanceolate with a pointed upper end.The spreading edge is weakly rolled downwards.A middle rib ranges up to slightly less than three quarters of the spreading length.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Gentianales

            • Family: Rubiaceae

              • Genus: Asperula