Records made by Tongai Castigo

woody spines in branches, small bipinnate leaves

Bracts with long, ciliate teeth

Species with shorter, forward pointing teeth on the female bracts

Erect annual with spreading spicate inflorescences; female bracts open with dentate margins.

Large colonies in degraded understorey; female bracts clearly toothed

Leaf undersides paler green, not silvery canescent.

Achenes tuberculate and glandular.

Growing together with Adiantum incisum.

Full of metallic green and white chafer beetles (Taurhina splendens)

Large bipinnate leaves and old thinly woody pods

Both male and female inflorescences present.

Male and female inflorescences collected.

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

male tree with red flowers below the leaves

Female plant with fruit

Abundant understorey shrublet

iNaturalist record

With old fruit

fruits are green with scales

Many inflorescences infested with galls

In fruit

Same specimen as recorded in April (record 66183)

Large green to brown fruit

iNaturalist record

Small understorey tree with 2-foliolate leaves and forked spines.

Very large tree

smallish coppice growth

Large and tall tree

Fruit

Spectacular in fruit. Infested by firebug nymphs.

Fruit rounded, glandular

Fruit sharply angled, glabrous

Giant specimen with dense vegetation of shrubs and lianas underneath and many large epiphytes.

Epiphyte in large Brachystegia spiciformis.

In fruit

Both white and pink-flowered forms present

Robust grass up to 3 m high forming large stands; inflorescences up to 25 cm long.

rather yellow not orange-red flowers