Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Galium divaricatum
Slender bedstraw
Rubiaceae
Dry open habitats, roadsides, and disturbed shaded areas. Tablelands, ACT and Western Slopes. Occasionally Kosciuszko National Park.
Introduced annual herb. Stems to 0.30 m long, 4-angled, becoming wiry, hairless or with scattered, short hairs or minute prickles. Leaves and leaf-like stipules in whorls of 6–8, gradually decreasing to 2 on the flowering branches, 0.3–1 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, tips pointed and often mucronate, surfaces more or less hairless, margins with tiny prickles. Flowers to 1 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm in diameter, with 4 yellowish red or yellow tinged red petals, fused together near their bases, in clusters of 3–12-flowers. Flowering: September–January. 'Seeds' 0.4–1 mm long, finely warty.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Galium~divaricatum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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