List by family

Family

Plant Group

Genera

Species

Gentianaceae

Herbs with opposite, entire leaves. Flowers usually in an inflorescence. Flowers 4-9-merous. The corolla is fused together and stamens are fused with the corolla and alternate with the lobes.

Image: Mike Bayly

Dicotyledon

Geraniaceae

Herbs or undershrubs with lobed or compound usually stipulate leaves. Flowers regular or slightly zygomorphic, hermaphrodite and in five parts. Stamens usually in 2 whorls, sometimes some are sterile, filaments are united at the base. The ovary is superior, usually lobed and with a long beak ending in free stigmas. Fruit a lobed capsule, usually opening septicidally from base to apex.

Image: Alison Kellow

Dicotyledon

Geranium

Rosetted or sprawling plants with small cupped white or pink flowers of five petals and ten stamens, leaves round to kidney-shaped, deeply divided on long stalks. Fruits splitting from the base while still joined at the apex, then curling up like springs, detaching suddenly to carry the seed some distance away. The position of hairs on leaf stalks is important for recognition of species.

homeanum

solanderi

Pelargonium

Differs from Geranium species in having the two upper petals larger than the others and always slightly separated from them. There is a nectar-spur at the base of the calyx. Three to eight of the ten stamens have anthers.

australe

Gleicheniaceae

Ferns characterised by repeated forkings of the rachis. The frond is capable of indefinite growth.

Fern or fern-ally

Goodeniaceae

Herbs and shrubs, petals unevenly spaced (two above, three below, or all on one side like a fan). Stigma covered by a hood (indusium).

Image: David Meagher