Asperula crassula
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Asperula crassula is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, endemic to a few hundred hectares in northeast Crete. It was first described in 1857.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipni.org/n/905691-1|title=International Plant Names Index|website=www.ipni.org|access-date=2020-03-02}}{{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:905691-1|title=Asperula crassula Greuter & Zaffran {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|website=Plants of the World Online|access-date=2020-03-02}}
Description
Asperula crassula is perennial, short, and cushion-shaped. Its stems are worm-shaped and are often 2-4 mm long. Its flowers are short, dense, sub-cylindrical, medially bipartite, and about 1.5 mm long. It occurs on rocky slopes and flats of limestone and sandstone.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cretanflora.com/asperula_crassula.html|title=Asperula crassula|website=www.cretanflora.com|access-date=2020-03-02}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhmc.uoc.gr/en/museum/photo-archive/selection/images/nhmc.image.78874|title=Suculent Woodruff, Asperula crassula, flowers|last=nikolakakis|date=2013-03-21|website=Natural History Museum of Crete|language=en|access-date=2020-03-02|archive-date=2020-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302155044/https://www.nhmc.uoc.gr/en/museum/photo-archive/selection/images/nhmc.image.78874|url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|last=Centre|first=World Conservation Monitoring|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIL9adYYeSIC&q=Asperula+crassula&pg=PA500|title=1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants|date=1998|publisher=IUCN|isbn=978-2-8317-0328-2|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Europe|first=Council of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EsWT8Ukcq48C&q=Asperula+crassula&pg=PA186|title=Biodiversity and Climate Change: Reports and Guidance Developed Under the Bern Convention|date=2012-01-01|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-7059-0|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Gibbons|first=Bob|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG5FxRp7li8C&q=Asperula+crassula&pg=PA302|title=Greece|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-850437-5|language=en}}