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Rubiatinctorium L. Rubiaceae
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Synonyms
Rubia tinctoria Salisb
Local Names
Azerbaijan: Bоyаqоtu; Georgia: Open image in new window
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– khevsuris lila (Khevsuretian) (Makashvili 1991), English: Madder.
Botany and Ecology
Perennial. Rootstock woody, cylindrical, long branched, thickened at the base and at the nodes, multiheaded, developing several stems, like root, provided with reddish persistent bark. Stems up to 1.5 m (and more) tall, climbing, clinging, strongly branched, 4-angled. Covered below with spinules, always glabrous, initially greenish, later whitish, dying completely in autumn. Leaves in 2–3 lower nodes petiolate, more or less brownish or reddish, usually paired, opposite, other light green. Middle leaves are often equal at internodes, at first thin, then thick or even stiff with thick prominent middle vein, often also with smaller veins, upper surface usually glabrous. Flowering branches numerous. Flowers are small, terminal and axillary forming many flowered panicles;...
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