Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 462, bis [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Dry places; Gunn"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 447 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Galium australe var. piloso-hispidum Benth. legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 71 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 273 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 360 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Tasmania]. New Norfolk, Gunn 1129, 6.11.1840 (K). ISOLECTOTYPE: Gunn 1129 (NSW)."

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 360 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 75 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 72 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Galium australe DC. legitimate

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