Asperula wimmerana

Tufted erect or decumbent perennial, with slender and creeping rhizomes; stems slender but rigid, to 20 cm long, scabrous to hispid with mostly recurved hairs. Leaves and stipules sessile, c. equal, in whorls of usually 6, linear, mostly 3–10 mm long and 0.5–1 mm wide, acute and often mucronate, upper surface glabrous to scabrous, lower surface scabrous with hairs mostly confined to midrib, margins recurved. Inflorescences terminal, mostly 1–3-flowered, c. as long as leaves. Corolla c. 3.5 mm long on male flowers, c. 2.5 mm long on females, white; corolla-tube longer than lobes in male flowers, more or less equal to lobes in females. Fruit 2-lobed; mericarps subglobose, 1.5–2.0 mm diam., rugose, brown to black. Flowers Aug.–Oct