Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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Richea (Ericaceae) 2:456
Richea is a large and well known genus of native Tasmanian shrubs and small trees. The sheathing leaf bases and petals fused into an operculum makes this genus very distinctive. There are nine species of this genus in Tasmania.

The fruit are slightly woody capsules (like those of Dracophyllum and Epacris). The leaves have sheathing bases like Sprengelia and Dracophyllym. Unlike Sprengelia the stems have circular scars from the leaf bases.

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