Collections made by Petra Ballings

Standing upright

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Leaves long petiolate; female bracts glandular on the margin. iNaturalist record

Very common and weedy in this area.

Extensive colony present

iNaturalist record

Leaves long petiolate, rhombic-ovate, capitula small; achenes tuberculate

Fronds pilose

iNaturalist record

Young plants; not pilose, not winged, margin not serrate

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

Virgate shrub up to 1 m tall, growing in shallow water.

With inflorescences in bud

In flower

iNaturalist record

female tree.the fruits are green, with three lobules, terminal flowers.

male tree with red flowers below the leaves

Fruit as long or longer than perianth segments

Fruit dark, as long or longer than tepals

Calyx lobes clearly overlapping, with rufus ciliate hairs; fruit clearly ridged not much exserting the calyx; plant decumbent.

Proliferous

Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

Small unbranched annual herbs 8-18 cm tall; flowers in terminal heads, c 1-1.5 cm in diameter; mauve-pink. Generally very common in the area

Very small depauperate plants only several centimeters tall.

Flower stalks all more than 1.5 cm long; corolla lobes much longer than calyx.

Bright yellow form

Climbing into Acacia nigrescens

Creeping rhizome, no gemma, about 30 cm, stipe articulated in lower half

Old leaves only, dying back in winter.

In fruit

In fruit

Looks like a cross between A. sandersonii and A. dregeanum

Meise Specimen (BR)

Meise specimen (BR) Looks like a cross between A. sandersonii and A. dregeanum

Erect rhizome, fronds tufted, not proliferous

Terrestrial next to Cyathea manniana

Leaves exceptionally large and divided for this species.