Fig. 2.

Freshly collected P. australis shoots from Useless Loop: (A) pseudoviviparous plantlet still attached to parent plant (January: 2 months after fruit/seed maturity); (B) harvested pseudoviviparous plantlets with inflorescence, basal rhizome with (maternal) shoot and inflorescence-derived plantlet attached via a thickened inflorescence peduncle; (C) inflorescences with multiple immature fruit and single plantlet with roots arising from rhizome (September: 1 month before fruit/seed maturity); (D) close-up of inflorescence bearing a single root (circle); (E) close-up of plantlet with inflorescence bearing immature fruit (arrow) but fruit were non-viable due to aborted seeds; (F) removal of leaf sheath from the inflorescence-derived plantlet reveals proximal end (base) of the peduncle attached to the maternal parent plant at the apex of a shoot (arrow). Photos by R. Hovey and J. Statton.