Galium orizabense explained

Galium orizabense (bald bedstraw) is a species of plants in the family Rubiaceae, named for the town of Orizaba in Veracruz, where the first collections of the species were made.^[1] The species is native to Mexico (from Sinaloa + Nuevo León south to Oaxaca), Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panamá, Venezuela, Colombia, and Hispaniola, plus widely scattered locations in the southeastern United States.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized (May 2014).^[6]

• Galium orizabense subsp. laevicaule (Weath. & Blake) Dempster - United States and Hispaniola
• Galium orizabense subsp. orizabense - Mexico, Central America, South America

External links

• Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Sinaloa in 1970, Galium orizabense
• Photo of herbarium specimen at Field Museum in Chicago, collected in Panamá
• Gardening Europe

Notes and References

1. Hemsley, William Botting. 1880. Diagnoses Plantarum Novarum Mexicanarum 3: 54
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=87051 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Galium%20orizabense.png Biota of North America Program
4. Dempster, L. 1975. Galium. In Standley, P.C. & Williams, L.O. (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part XI, Numbers 1 to 3. Fieldiana: Botany 24(11/1–3): 74–78.
5. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
6. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-87051 The Plant List, Galium orizabense Hemsl.