Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 105 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 46 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1830), Rubiaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 4: 607 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 445 [secondary reference]

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

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 257 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 257 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Galium mollugo L.

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

common name: Bedstraw [n/a]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin galion, the name of G. verum, L., said to be derived from the Greek gala, milk, because that plant was used to curdle milk."

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

common name: Bedstraw [n/a]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin galion, the name of G. verum, L., said to be derived from the Greek gala, milk, because that plant was used to curdle milk."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 357 [secondary reference]

common name: Bedstraw [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 271-272 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 289 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 338-339 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 997 [secondary reference]

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

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia). Flora of Central Australia: 279 [secondary reference]

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 355 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 331-332 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Rubiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 643 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Galium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 483 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Rubiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 404 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 617 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 864 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 349 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 70-74 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI

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

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