Common name: Small Bedstraw
Galium murale (L.) All. APNI* 
Description: Small prostrate to ascending annual; stems soft, thread-like, usually < 12 cm long, glabrous or with few retrorse prickles.
Leaves and stipules usually in whorls of 3–6, oblanceolate or obovate to narrow-elliptic, 3–8 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, apex acute with a short point, lamina ± glabrous with antrorse hairs on margins; petiole minute.
Inflorescences with 1 or 2 flowers; peduncles mostly absent; pedicels shorter than subtending leaves, usually bent downwards. Flowers c. 1 mm long, white to yellowish green.
Fruit linear-oblong, 1–1.5 mm long, with long, hooked hairs, particularly towards the apex.
Flowering: mainly August–November
Distribution and occurrence: A widespread weed. Native of Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
Text by T. A. James & W. K. Allen
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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