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

Well naturalized and spreading with the capacity to become seriously invasive.

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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

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

Very common and weedy in this area.

Extensive colony present

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In fruit

Tall specimen, c. 2.5 m high; probably planted in colonial days.

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

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

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Fronds pilose

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

Growing together with Adiantum incisum.

Bulbous base.

Stems leafy, prostrate/ascending; no basal rosette.

Main leaves in a basal rosette; stems ascending/erect.

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Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

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

Inflorescence and leaf rhachis glandular hairy.

Leaves very small; “bikini fruit”; stipules not conspicuous

Large triangular-lanceolate stipules; fruit of 2 segments,one much smaller than the other; leaves largish

Very corky bark, leaves a bit like Rapanaea; fruit small woody, split into 4 valves.

Growing in a Dombeya rotundifolia tree.

Very common particularly on Dichrostachys cinerea

In fruit

Bulbous herb, c. 30 cm high, inflorescence sparsely branched; flowers whitish with broad brownish line down the centre of each tepal

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

Unbranched erect herb, most parts purplish, some small green leaves;flowers golden yellow with very hairy stamens.

iNaturalist record

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