The hymenogastraceae of Tasmania

The researches of systematic botanists in Australia have been chiefly directed to elucidate the members of the more conspicuous phyla. Inquiry into the Flowering plants, Gymnosperms, Pterydophyta, Biyophyta, and the larger marine Algae has steadily progressed, though many forms belonging to most of these groups yet remain to be discovered and described.
But when we come to the important groups of the freshwater Algae and the Fungi we find information still in a very backward condition.
We have six genera of the family, and the following key was used to assist in their recognition.