Platysace Bunge

Leaves not stem clasping Platysace

Leaves linear-lanceolate to orbicular, entire to dentate or lobed

At least the lower leaves lobed or dentate

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Lower or all the leaves deeply divided into 3 spreading lobes; the outer lobes sometimes themselves 2-lobed; upper leaves sometimes undivided, lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate. All leaves rigid, very acute, almost pungent pointed. Stems ± pubescent. Mericarps glabrous, bullate-rugose. Widespread. Heath and DSF. Fl. summer. (P. stephensonii hybribizes with P. lanceolata) Platysace stephensonii

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All the leaves dentate at the apex with usually more than 3 acute teeth, obovate to orbicular, up to 10 mm long and 10 mm wide. Stems pubescent, with some villous hairs. Mericarps ± smooth, pubescent. Hornsby Plateau. DSF. Fl. spring–summer Platysace clelandii