Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 79-80, Figs 4i, 9 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Victoria. Mullungdung Flora and Fauna Reserve, A.C.Beauglehole 75789 & O. & B.Thompson, 8 December 1983; holo: MEL; iso NSW.

misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 333 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Galium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 485-486 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Carolin, R.C. & Tindale, M.D. (1994), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 4: 491 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Halford, D.A. & Reynolds, S.T. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1994), Rubiaceae. Queensland Vascular Plants: Names and Distribution: 296 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Reynolds, S.T. & Halford, D.A. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1997), Rubiaceae. Queensland Plants: Names and Distribution: 181 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 622, Fig. 121a misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Forster, P.I. & Halford, D.A. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Rubiaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 174 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 112. 184 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Walsh, N.G. & Stajsic, V. (June 2007), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 8: 122 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Forster, P.I. & Halford, D.A. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Rubiaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 176

• Etymology: The epithet refers to the fruit surface which, apart from the hairs, is more or less smooth rather than rugose (From Gk: leios, smooth and carpos, fruit).

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

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

taxonomic synonym: Galium umbrosum G.Forst. ex Hook.f. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Wakefield, N.A. (1955), Flora of Victoria: New species and other additions - 1. The Victorian Naturalist 72(2): 70, fig. 3, 3e, 71 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 357 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 415 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1972), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 2: 427 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 618 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 189 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 621 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1982), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 3: 426 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 333 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Galium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 485-486 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Halford, D.A. & Reynolds, S.T. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1994), Rubiaceae. Queensland Vascular Plants: Names and Distribution: 296 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Reynolds, S.T. & Halford, D.A. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (1997), Rubiaceae. Queensland Plants: Names and Distribution: 181 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 622, Fig. 121a misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Forster, P.I. & Halford, D.A. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Rubiaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 174 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 112. 184 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Walsh, N.G. & Stajsic, V. (June 2007), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 8: 122 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Forster, P.I. & Halford, D.A. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Rubiaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 176 misapplication: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate by Pellow, B.J., Henwood, M.J. & Carolin, R.C. in Pellow, B.J., Henwood, M.J. & Carolin, R.C. (ed.) (2009), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 5: 374

• APC Comment: Hybrids between Galium leiocarpum and G. leptogonium I.Thomps. are recorded for Qld, and between G. leiocarpum and Galium ciliare Hook.f. subsp. ciliare for Vic by I.R.Thompson, Muelleria 27(1): 80 (2009).
• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 72 [secondary reference]

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