Galium orizabense

Bald bedstraw
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Galium
Species: G. orizabense
Binomial name
Galium orizabense
Hemsl.

Galium orizabense (bald bedstraw) is a species of plants in the 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]

References

  1. Hemsley, William Botting. 1880. Diagnoses Plantarum Novarum Mexicanarum 3: 54
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. 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, Bot. 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. The Plant List, Galium orizabense Hemsl.

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