McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 373, Fig. 5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "VICTORIA: Mt. Arapiles, ca. 20 miles [32 km] east of Horsham, Aston 1075, 3.10.1963 (MEL 17791)."

misapplication: Galium australe DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 539

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

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

pro parte misapplication: Galium australe DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 539

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): 99-100, Fig. 12 [secondary reference]

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

pro parte misapplication: Galium australe DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 539

• APC Comment: Hybrids between G. curvihirtum and Galium compactum Ehrend. & McGill. are recorded for SA and Vic; and between G. curvihirtum and Galium gaudichaudii DC. subsp. gaudichaudii for Vic by I.R.Thompson, Muelleria 27(1): 100 (2009).
• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic

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