Collections made by Bart Wursten

Standing upright

In flower

In fruit.

Fruit with more than 23 very long-awned carpels

Leavs small, green, not much hairy or glaucous; only 5 metacarpels, very long awns

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Petiole short with a squat gland; bark pale grey

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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

Very common and weedy in this area.

Extensive colony present

Small-leaved perennial shrublet with yellow flowers and flat glandular pods.

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

Fronds pilose

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

Growing together with Adiantum incisum.

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

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Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea

Male inflorescences

Female plant in fruit

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

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

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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.

With old fruit

Annual

Unbranched annuals with square stems, somewhat winged near the top; leaves linear-lanceolate, auriculate-sagittate at the base. Flowers in few-flowered axillary inflorescences on longish wiry peduncles.

Proliferous

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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.

In fruit

Many inflorescences infested with galls

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

Bright yellow form

Perennial herbs up to 70 cm high with a fan of sword-shaped leaves overlapping at the base; inflorescence shortly branched; flowers deep blue. Several specimens seen