Asperula ambleia

Erect or ascending subshrubby perennial with a woody rootstock; stems rigid, often woody below, to 30 cm long, minutely hairy. Leaves and stipules sessile, unequal, in whorls of 4, the stipules being smaller; leaves linear to linear-oblong, mostly 2–5 mm long and c. 0.3 mm wide, erect, more or less obtuse with an apical hair-tuft, surfaces virtually glabrous, margins recurved. Inflorescences terminal cymes, mostly 1–3-flowered, usually longer than leaves. Corolla 2–3 mm long on male flowers, c. 2 mm long on females, white; corolla-tube longer than lobes. Fruit deeply 2-lobed; mericarps reniform, c. 2 mm long, black. Flowers Sep.–Mar.