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

iNaturalist record

Fronds pilose

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

Stems leafy, prostrate/ascending; no basal rosette.

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

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

iNaturalist record

In flower

With inflorescences in bud

male tree with red flowers below the leaves

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

Fruit dark, as long or longer than tepals

Fruit as long or longer than perianth segments

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.

Very small depauperate plants only several centimeters tall.

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

Scrambling herb; branches up to 1 m long, reddish, with long, whitish, spreading hairs; flowers violet. Several specimens at collection site; generally frequent in the area

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

Bright yellow form

Climbing into Acacia nigrescens

Old leaves only, dying back in winter.

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

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