Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1788), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2(2): 580 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cette plant croît naturellement en France, aux lieux fablonneux & pierreux. M. Desfontaines L'a rencontrée dans le Berry; & M. l'Abbé Pourret nous en a communiqhé des individus qu'il a trouvés dans le Languedoc. (v.s.)"

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 539 [secondary reference]

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

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 290 [secondary reference]

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

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 376 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium parisiense var. australe Ewart & Jean White legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 154 [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: 485 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Bedstraw [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 621, Fig. 120e [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium parisiense var. australe Ewart & Jean White legitimate common name: Slender Bedstraw [n/a]

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

common name: Slender Bedstraw [n/a]

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 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Galium parisiense var. australe Ewart & Jean White legitimate common name: Slender Bedstraw [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Galium parisiense var. australe Ewart & Jean White legitimate common name: Slender Bedstraw [n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 105, 107, Fig. 13 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Galium parisiense var. australe Ewart & Jean White legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & White, J. (1909), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. 10. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 21(2): 541 misapplication: Galium parisiense L. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 616 common name: Slender Bedstraw [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Galium parisiense var. australe Ewart & Jean White legitimate pro parte misapplication: Galium australe DC. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 154 misapplication: Galium australe DC. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 122 misapplication: Galium parisiense L. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 616

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Galium microlobum I.Thomps. 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

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

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 342-343, photos 4-6 [secondary reference]

common name: Lamarck's Bedstraw [n/a]

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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