Galium graecum Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 118; Mantissa Plantarum: 38. 1767.

"Habitat in Insulis Archipelagi. D. Schreber." RCN: 881.

Lectotype (Ehrendorfer & Schönbeck-Temesy in Davis, Fl. Turkey 7: 826. 1982): Schreber, Herb. Linn. No. 129.32 (LINN) .

Current name: Galium graecum L. subsp. graecum ( Rubiaceae).