Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1: 121 [nom. nov.]

replaced synonym: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 188 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium tenuicaule A.Cunn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium curtum Hook.f. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 76, 142 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 71 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium gaudichaudii DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium ciliare Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Galium vagans Hook.f. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 173 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 538 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium vagans Hook.f. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Galium gaudichaudii DC. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 446

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 799 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 618 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 189 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 364 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 333 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 622 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Galium propinquum A.Cunn. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Galium leiocarpum I.Thomps. legitimate

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