Galium liratum

Prostrate to procumbent annual or biennial; stems slender, mostly 15–40 cm long, with tiny retrorse prickles, or glabrous. Leaves and stipules c. equal, in whorls of 4(–5), elliptic to obovate, mostly 10–15 mm long and 2–5 mm wide, acute to obtuse-mucronate, upper and lower surfaces usually with scattered hairs, lacking glandular cells, margins flat to slightly recurved; petiole distinct, 1–5 mm long. Inflorescences mostly 1–3-flowered, all not exceeding whorls or lowermost sometimes exceeding whorls when mature; peduncles to c. 1 mm long; pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm long, straight or slightly curved. Corolla 1.5–2 mm diam., cream. Fruit depressed-globose, to c. 1.3–1.8 mm long; mericarps reniform, touching one another, longitudinally ribbed. Flowers Oct.–Apr.