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Herbs or small shrubs; epigynous disc usually swelling at the base of the styles on the fruit Apiaceae
Leaves and bracts pungent pointed. Flowers in dense heads or short cylindrical spikes Eryngium
Plants less than 1 m high
Main stems erect, branched, rigid, ± ribbed, 15–50 cm high
Basal leaves lobed or dentate, broad-ovate in outline; each lobe or tooth terminating in a rigid pungent point; petiole short, broad. Plant without a bluish tinge. Budgewoi. Coastal sand-dunes. Fl. summer–autumn Eryngium maritimum