- Trachymene
Key to the species of Trachymene
1Taprooted annuals or biennials; at least some leaves cauline; chiefly lowland plants2 2Umbels with 20 or more flowers; mericarps usually smooth, rarely bristly; widespread, erect annual or biennial 30–120 cm high3 2Umbels with fewer than 15 flowers; mericarps (at least one of each pair) hirsute; short-lived mallee annuals under 30 cm high4 4Umbels 3–6-flowered; petals bluish (rarely white); both mericarps hirsute to villous with purplish bristlesTrachymene cyanopetala 4Umbels 6–12-flowered; petals white; one mericarp granular-rugose but glabrous, the other with retrorsely barbellate bristlesTrachymene pilosa From: Walsh, N.G.; Borre, A. van den (1999). Trachymene. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria. Vol. 4. Cornaceae to Asteraceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
