Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Herbs
Plants with leaves
Stem leaves present
Leaves all opposite
Flowers not in compact head
Flowers <5mm
No stinging hairs
Doesn’t exude milky juice
Perianth one whorl or absent
not petaloid
Leaves with 1 main vein
Lower leaf surface not white
Plant not scabrous

 

FAMILIES REMAINING:

CRASSULACEAE

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

RUBIACEAE
Leaves glabrous, small (<5mm), almost as broad as wide, usually fleshy, apex blunt, flowers solitary, plants forming small dense mats, mostly alpine (Nertera, Coprosma moorei) RUBIACEAE
   
Plants not as above (leaves often narrow and acute), flowers solitary or in axillary cymes
   
 
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