| Name | Galium spurium Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Galium Linnaeus |
| Contains | Galium spurium subsp. africanum Verdcourt Galium spurium var. echinospermum (Wallroth) Hayek |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:750665-1 |
| Holdings | 7 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Galium spurium Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (6), 1920 (1) |