Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Shrubs and tree
Leaves opposite
Leaves leaf-like
Leaves simple
Flowers not in compact head
Not Eucalyptus
Perianth large, conspicuous
Petals and sepals present
Stamen number same as petals
Not a saltmarsh plant
Petals fused into a tube 
Stems don’t exude milky latex
Corolla radially symmetrical
Flowers solitary or nearly so APOCYNACEAE
   
Flowers in many-flowered terminal raceme (i.e. on stalks on an unbranched, elongated axis) SCROPHULARIACEAE

   
Flowers in a many-flowered panicle (i.e. multiply branched) VIBURNACEAE

   
 
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