Collections made by Lari Merrett

Mono. Tubers below, leaves graas-like from base, variable lengths, fanning out along one plane, tallest central, shorter to the sides, flower stalk +-15cm above leaves, blue flowers, 6 petals, alternating from larger to smaller, yellow anthers central.

Monocot. Leaves: light grey-green, long slender, spreading from base. Flower stalk +-1m tall; flowers: widely spaced towards top of stalk, ppetals x 6 blue +-8mmx10mm, rounded to slightly tapered tips.

Annual herb, thin straight stems +-40cm long, leaves deeply lobed, only veins remain. Seedheads terminal, compound, compact, elongated seed tips bifid. Remnant yellow petals on a few heads.
Seasonally fairly widespread.

Annual herb, thin straight stems +-40cm long, leaves deeply lobed, only veins remain. Seedheads terminal, compound, compact, elongated seed tips bifid.
Seasonally fairly widespread

Single stem herb, pale yellow stem, leaf stalks +-1cm, leaves horizontal, opp., wider and blunter near base, tapering to tip, margin burgundy outline, blade marbled by irregular venations. Flower: cream bulbous at base, cream substantial tube, brown-green lobes joining at tip forming a cage.
Fairly widespread and common

Ground level herb from a woody rootstock +-5cm tall. Leaves length +-1.5 width, curved margins, +-6cm long, dark green. Bracts pointed with spiny serrations, flowers white with yellow middle +-1,5cm across.

Herb growing in colony from woody rootstock, leaf covered stems +-10cm long; leaves: soft, cream-green, moisture and drops held in long white hairs. Flowers singular at ends of +-40cm long straight very slender burgundy stalks, phyllary bright green, single layer of linear bracts, florets orange.
Plentiful in this location, not noticed elsewhere

Single stemmed upright herb +-35cm tall from a woody rootstock, slender leaves similar lengths (+-1.5cm x2mm) up stem, distance between leaves decreases towards top, 6 wide triangular sepals, domed grouped of seeds in center. Threads: Common

Herb with bright yellow flowers and grey-silver seedhead. Threats: Common

Suffrutex. fleshy yellowish hair covered stems +-30cm tall, lens-shaped leaves, width 1/3 length, evenly spaced along stems +- 2cm, leaves +- 45 degrees to stem, increasing in size along stem ending up as long as or longer than interleaf space. Flower heads at top, subspjerical cluster of about 50 bright yellow waxy flowers; flower: 5 petals, petals widest at base tapering gently to tip.

Suffrutex. Leaves: +-35cm tall, baldes as long as stalks. Rough, soft textured, margins serrated like bread knives on both edges, grey green above, silvery with prominent green midib behind.
Common

Suffrutex. Bright green fleshy stalks +-10cm tall, 3mm wide, few thin widely spaced leaves. Robust flower heads. Basal cup: compact, bright green, single layer of bracts, restricted at lip, +-1.5cm high and wide (at base), 1cm wide at lip; rounded white head of florets, each with extended grey collumns and prominent curled white tips+- 3mm above.
Common