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
Woolly plants
Long heads

 
Flower heads in clusters,  each subtended by a single leaf. Plant usually with many clusters forming an elongated inflorescence  Gamochaeta
 

Flower heads solitary or in more-or less spherical clusters subtended by a whorl of leaves



 
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