Rubia laurae

Rubia laurae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Tribe: Rubieae
Genus: Rubia
Species: R. laurae
Binomial name
Rubia laurae
(Holmboe) Airy Shaw
Synonyms

Galium laurae Holmboe

Rubia laurae, Cyprus madder is a trailing perennial with a woody rootstock, stems 10-100 cm long. Leaves 4-whorled, simple, irregularly serrulate, glaucous, coriaceous, sessile, with a broad asymmetrical base, 8-30 x 2-8 mm. Flowers in terminal cymes, small, yellow-brownish, with a 5-merous corolla. Flowers May-August. Fruit a black, globose, fleshy, drupe.[1]

Habitat

Rocky and stony, dry hillsides, in garigue, vineyard edges or pine forests at 0-1200 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus where it occur in Lysos, Panayia, Arminou, Mesa Potamos, Kato Amiandos, Platres area, the Limassol Forest, Erimi, the Pentadaktylos Range.

References

  1. The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2

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