Galium ciliare

Trailing to semi-erect perennial, often extensively rhizomatous; stems slender, 10–30 cm long, with sparse to dense slender hairs to 0.8 mm long or occasionally with fine, shorter prickle-like hairs. Leaves and stipules subsessile, c. equal, in whorls of 4, elliptic to orbicular, 2–10 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, obtuse to acute, upper surface glossy, both surfaces with scattered hairs or glabrous, margins recurved to revolute. Inflorescences (2–)3–30-flowered; peduncles 2–20 mm long; pedicels 0.6–10 mm long, straight. Corolla 1.5–3 mm diam., pale yellow or cream. Fruit obovoid to subglobose, 1.3–1.5 mm long; mericarps flattened ellipsoid to broad obovoid, honey-brown, rugose, glabrous.