Galium ciliare Hook.f. APNI* 
Description: Herbs with sparsely to moderately dense, slender hairs, often with extensive rhizomes. Stems 0.4–0.8 mm long, with angles slender or moderately broadened.
Leaves and stipules in whorls of 4, with stipules the same length as leaves, elliptic to sub-circular 2–10 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, apex without a terminal hair.
Inflorescence of cymes mostly 2- or 3-flowered, or sometimes a few lower cymes 4- to 7-flowered; with upper cymes not or hardly exceeding whorls. Flowers with corolla 1.5–3 mm diam., pale yellow or cream, glabrous; ovarybroad obovate 0.5–0.8 mm long, glabrous.
Fruit honey brown, flattened ellipsoid to broad obovoid, reticulately rugose, c. 0.8 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers late spring to summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs on the tablelands of northern, central and far southern NSW, in Queensland, in eastern and far western Victoria, far south-eastern South Australia, and northern Tasmania.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by Louisa Murray (August 2011)
Taxon concept: Thompson, I.R. (2009). A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubieae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27, p81-82.
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