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.

In fruit

Tendrilous climber, up to 1.2m long; leaves glaucous, fruit light green

Slender species in fruit with deeply, narrowly lobed leaves

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

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

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

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.

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

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

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

With inflorescences in bud

In flower

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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.

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

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