Galium scabrellum K.Schum.

Prostrate, trailing, scrambling or ± climbing plant 0.3–3.6 m. long, the stems very strongly ribbed, pubescent to densely hairy particularly on the ribs and sometimes minutely prickly.. Leaves and stipules in whorls of (6–)8(–10); blades very narrowly elliptic, 0.4–1.7 cm. long (mostly under 1.2 cm.), 0.5–2(–4) mm. wide, produced into a distinct filiform acumen at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrescent or with rather long hairs all over both surfaces or only on the midnerve above and beneath, sometimes also scabrid above, the margins usually with well-developed closely set reflexed saw-like denticles sometimes obscured by the inrolling of the margins.. Inflorescences many-flowered terminal and axillary panicles; peduncles 1.5–2 mm. long; pedicels 1.5–3 mm. long.. Calyx-tube 0.3–0.5 mm. in diameter, glabrous or hairy.. Flowers dull, pale or bright yellow or cream-coloured; tube 0.2–0.4(–0.5) mm. long; lobes ovate-triangular, 1–1.5 mm. long, 0.45–0.8 mm. wide, acuminate.. Fruit reddish, each coccus ± 1 mm. in diameter, glabrous or sparsely hairy.