Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.
Stems thread-like, leafless or almost so, forming tangled masses over the host and attached to the host by haustoria
Stems yellowish or reddish. Usually parasitic on herbs Convolvulaceae
Leafy plants
Plants with spreading hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, apex acute to obtuse 1.5–4 mm long. Calyx c. 5 mm long, as long as the corolla. Corolla white, tube broad. Stamens and style slightly exserted. Herb with prostrate stems. Coastal. Royal National Park. Endangered. Fl. spring-summer Wilsonia rotundifolia
Plants glabrous or nearly so, often forming dense dark green mats. Leaves linear to narrow-oblong, 6–15 mm long. Calyx 5–8 mm long; the teeth much shorter than the tube. Corolla tube slender, exceeding the calyx; the lobes reflexed, white. Stamens and style much exserted. Small procumbent perennial herb. Margins of saltmarshes, e.g. Parramatta River. Vulnerable. Fl. spring–summer Wilsonia backhousei