Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Geraldton District

herbherbaceoushilumhyalinehybridhypanthiumany vascular plant that never produces a woody stem. cf. forbnot woody; soft in texturea scar on the seed indicating its point of attachmenttranslucent, almost like clear glassan offspring of genetically different parents (in a Flora, usually applied where theparents are of different species)a cup or tube bearing floral parts above the base, and often above the top, of the ovaryof a flowerimbricate of perianth parts, having the edges overlapping in the bud. Fig. 25incurvedindumentumindusiuminferiorinflexedinflorescenceinternodeinvolucrejuvenilekeelkeeledlabellumlaminalanceolateleafletlegumelignotuberbent or curved inwards or upwards; of leaf margins, curved towards the adaxialsurfacethe epidermal coverings of a plants, collectively.tissue covering the sorus of a fern; the pollen cup of Goodeniaceae.of an ovary, at least partly below the level of attachment of the other flora parts. cf.superiorbent sharply upwards or forwardsthe group or arrangement in which flowers are borne on a plantthe portion of a stem between the level of insertion of two successive leaves or leafpairs (or branches of an inflorescence)a whorl of bracts subtending a flower or flower clusterof leaves, formed on a young plant and different in form from the adult leavesa ridge like the keel of a boat; in particular, a boat-shaped structure formed by fusionof the two anterior petals of a flower in Fabaceaeof leaves or bracts, folded and ridged along the midriba lip; in Orchidaceae, the distinctive median petal that serves as an alighting platformfor pollinating insectsthe blade of a leafof a leaf, about four times as long as it is broad, broadest in the lower half andtapering towards the tipone of the ultimate segments of a compound leafa fruit characteristic of the families Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae and Papilionaceaeformed from one carpel and either dehiscent along both sides, or indehiscenta woody swelling below or just above the ground, containing adventitious buds fromwhich new shoots develop if the top of the plant is cut or burnt (common in theshrubby eucalypts and in many other fire-tolerant Australian shrubs)52