McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 370-371, Fig. 3 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Kangaroo Island, Sandhill on road to Cape du Couedic, ca. 1.5 km south of Rocky River Homestead, Hj. Eichler 15376, 11. 11. 1958 (AD)."

pro parte misapplication: Galium gaudichaudii DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 799 misapplication: Galium ciliare Hook.f. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 538

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 624, Fig. 121b [secondary reference]

common name: Compact Bedstraw [n/a]

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

pro parte misapplication: Galium gaudichaudii DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 799 misapplication: Galium ciliare Hook.f. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 538 misapplication: Galium ciliare Hook.f. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (June 1983), A list of the vascular plants of South Australia 1: 78

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 95-96, Fig. 12 [secondary reference]

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

pro parte misapplication: Galium gaudichaudii DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 799 pro parte misapplication: Galium gaudichaudii DC. legitimate by Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 116 misapplication: Galium ciliare Hook.f. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 538 misapplication: Galium ciliare Hook.f. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (June 1983), A list of the vascular plants of South Australia 1: 78

• APC Comment: Hybrids between G. compactum and Galium curvihirtum Ehrend. & McGill.for SA and Vic; and between G. compactum and Galium leptogonium I.Thomps. are recorded for SA by I.R.Thompson, Muelleria 27(1): 96 (2009).
• APC Dist.: SA, 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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