Collections made by Petra Ballings

Petiole short with a squat gland; bark pale grey

Very common and weedy in this area.

iNaturalist record

In fruit

Fronds pilose

iNaturalist record

Flowers tiny white, Leaves with very short white hairs.

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

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

Unusual pale-flowered form

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.

Proliferous

Clearly perennial herb with strong rootstock.

Bright yellow form

"plumosus" form

In fruit

iNaturalist record

This ia apparently a first record for the MS Division.

Prostrate stems; flowers mauve-blue

Prostrate plant; fruits with only few glandular hairs

Growing together with Boerhavia diffusa

Shrubs in flower

Same shrubs as records 22074/76; now in fruit

Pink form

Flowers tiny white.

Densely stellate-hairy small shrub, upto 70 cm high; male inflorescences terminal with golden-yellow stamens; female below, several, in fruit. Fruit 3-lobed, densely stellate hairy held in deeply lobed, persistent calyx lobes, looking like miniature fern fronds.