Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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ASTERACEAE

Herbs
Not cushions
Stem leaves
Not Xanthium
Tube flowers
Not thistles
Not Stuartina
Not papery
Multiple rows
Not Angianthus
Heads small
Pappus
Not Calocephalus
Bristles
Phyllaries dry
Phyllaries not fringed
Heads small
Leaves small
Translucent phyllaries

 
Plant hairless or with only scattered or patchy hairs, pappus bristles plumose from the base to the tip   Hyalosperma
 
    
Plant with woolly white stems, undersides of leaves and sometimes upper parts of leaves, pappus bristles barbellate



 
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