Galium ciliare
Hook.f. Hairy BedstrawTrailing 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.
GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. A species of mostly cool, damp forest areas, extending to the subalps.
The ovaries of this species are distinctive amongst the Victorian Galium species in that they are usually green after drying rather than brown and often have a longitudinal line running down each carpel (Thompson 2009).
There are two subspecies, both in Victoria.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Rubiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 616–642. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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