Admittedly I jumped the gun with the features I picked out, for some reason at the time I mistakenly ruled out decurrens as having a single, less recurved beak, which is obviously not correct! Which is why I am hoping for some clarification as I can’t think of any reliable features separating these two species besides the inflorescence.
Yeah what I’d say is that any plants that are part of a natural population in the ACT are H.decurrens, any H.sericea you see will have originated from a planting at some stage. Other than that the reddish colouration on the branchlets is a good tip from Luke.
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