Galium mollugo

Ascending or procumbent perennial; stems slender, 15–150 cm long, glabrous or with with short pale hairs. Leaves and stipules, sessile, c. equal, in whorls of 5–18, elliptical-obovate, oblong-oblanceolate, oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 8–30 mm long, 1–7 mm wide, rounded to subacute, usually mucronate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous or shortly hairy with antrorse hairs near flat or slightly recurved margin. Inflorescences 6–9-flowered, greatly exceeding whorls; peduncles 1–5 mm long; pedicels 1.5–3(–4) mm long. Corolla 2–5 mm diam., white. Fruit depressed-globose, 0.5–0.8 mm long; mericarps ellipsoid to reniform, touching one another, brown or blackish, smooth, glabrous. Recorded flowering in May in Victoria.