Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 106 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Europae cultis

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium tenerum Schleich. ex Gaudin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium ibicinum Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss. legitimate

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 108-109, Fig. 14 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium aparine var. minor Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium ibicinum Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium spurium subsp. ibicinum (Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.) Ehrend. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Galium aparine L. legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 619, Fig. 120b misapplication: Galium tenerum Schleich. ex Gaudin legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 539 misapplication: Galium tenerum Schleich. ex Gaudin legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 617

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Galium spurium L. subsp. spurium legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium vaillantii DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium spurium var. vaillantii (DC.) Gren. & Godr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium aparine var. minor Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium ibicinum Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium spurium subsp. ibicinum (Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.) Ehrend. legitimate misapplication: Galium tenerum Schleich. ex Gaudin legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 800 misapplication: Galium tenerum Schleich. ex Gaudin legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 617

• APC Comment: Authorship of Galium tenerum is sometimes given as "Pers.", Syn. Pl. 1: 128 (1805). However, the name only appears in that work as a synonym of G. parisiense L. and is thus not validly published by Persoon.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 342 [secondary reference]

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