Galium aschenbornii explained

Galium aschenbornii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Galium, native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador.[1]

Description

Galium aschenbornii is a climbing or trailing plant, with leaves in whorls of four, each leaf being 7mm15mm long. Its flowers are typically red or pink (occasionally white, yellow or greenish) and actinomorphic with elongated corolla lobes, although few flowers are normally produced.

Distribution

Galium aschenbornii is found in mountainous regions of Mexico, as far north as Jalisco and San Luis Potosí, and south through Central America to Ecuador.[2] It lives at altitudes of 1200- in "moist slopes, meadows or streambanks, in open or dense forests of oak and conifers".[2]

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Notes and References

  1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=85734 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Book: Lauramay T. Dempster . 1978 . The Genus Galium (Rubiaceae) in Mexico and Central America . University of California Publications in Botany . 73 . . 978-0-520-09578-6 . Galium aschenbornii Schauer . 11–12 . https://books.google.com/books?id=ss1hgpXgR2AC&pg=PA11.