A shrub or small tree 1-3m high with stiff semi-erect branches. Leaves 4-8mm long, lanceolate, alternate and crowded, with long soft points and apex slightly curved towards stem. Flowers usually pink-purple; less commonly white or yellow, without stalks, in terminal clusters approximately 15mm across. Fruit, woody capsules persistent for several years. Flowering: October - February. Widespread in wet heaths, sea level to approximately 1500m.  Tas. Vic. NSW and SA.

A spreading much-branched shrub to 2.5m with smooth branches. Leaves elliptical 1.4cm long, dark green, leathery, reticulate veins and mid-rib obvious, margins recurved. Leaf apex blunt, often with an abrupt point; lower surface brownish with short hairs. The golden-yellow pea flowers are in dense terminal clusters. Pods 7-8mm long, rounded, grey-brown covered with long silky hairs.
Flowering Spring-summer. Widespread from sea-level to 1000m, commonly found growing in wet areas on rainforest edges. Found in Tasmania, Victoria,  New South Wales, Queensland. Propagates most easily from seed, which germinate after soaking in boiling water.

A densely branched shrub or small tree to 8m with slender branches. Leaves shortly stalked, linear-elliptical, pointed but not sharp, striate and pale underneath. Flowers are very small, solitary or in axillary spikes; trees often unisexual. Fruit a greenish drupe. A common understorey shrub at edges of wet forest and in previously logged areas. Flowering in summer. Tas endemic.

A widespread endemic tree to 20 m. in wet sclerophyll forests and rainforests from sea level to 900 metres. The male flower is insignificant, but the “female” flower consists of a seed-bearing scale which becomes pink and fleshy, and the seed is surrounded by a white outgrowth from its stalk. The cladodes (meaning a flattened stem functioning as a leaf) are thick, leathery and in shape reminiscent of celery leaves. A valuable timber as it does not shrink when dried, and was sent to William Hooker at Kew (UK) by Ronald Campbell Gunn in 1844.