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*Hedera helix inflorescence
2. *Hedera helix (ivy)
3. Pseudopanax gunnii
* introduced species
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Araliaceae (the ginseng family) are a medium sized, mostly tropical
family related to the Apiaceae. The family are mostly shrubs or trees, and,
like Apiaceae, have small flowers
in umbels. The leaves are often pinnately lobed or pinnate. Tasmania
has two native and one introduced species in this family (not counting
a number of cultivated species). Ivy (Hedera helix) is a reasonably
common naturalised woody climber. Polyscias sambucifolia is
a rare native wet forest shrub near the east coast. This has highly
variable leaves that can be irregularly pinnate, bipinnate or even
tripinnate. Pseudopanax gunnii is a wet forest shrub species
of south-western Tasmania, with palmate or palmately lobed leaves.
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