Collections made by Petra Ballings

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Petiole short with a squat gland; bark pale grey

Very common and weedy in this area.

Extensive colony present

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

Fronds pilose

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.

Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea

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

male tree with red flowers below the leaves

Erect unbranched herb, up to 20 cm high; flowers yellow

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.

iNaturalist record

Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

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

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

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.