1	"Plant a slender, often nearly leafless twiner"	"Comesperma volubile"
1	"Plant erect, never twining"	2
2	"Flowers sessile; apparently leafless shrub of far north-west with grooved, tuberculate stems"	"Comesperma scoparium"
2	"Flowers distinctly pedicellate; characters otherwise not as above"	3
3	"Weak subshrubs to c. 30 cm high, with stems arising annually from a rhizome or persistent rootstock; flowers blue or pinkish"	4
3	"Leafy perennial shrubs mostly higher than 30 cm; flowers pink to mauve (never blue)"	6
4	"Abaxial pair of sepals united for more than half their length; flowers pink or mauve"	"Comesperma polygaloides"
4	"Outer 3 sepals all free; flowers blue"	5
5	"Plants normally leafy (rarely leafless in some mallee forms); wings c. twice as long as the outer sepals or more; capsules truncate or shallowly 3-toothed at apex; mostly dryish sandy heathland"	"Comesperma calymega"
5	"Plants leafless or with a few scattered leaves toward base; inner sepals (wings) less than twice as long as the outer sepals; capsules rounded, sometimes emarginate at apex; mostly swampy heathland"	"Comesperma defoliatum"
6	"Leaves with recurved margins, distinctly paler beneath; flowers in typical elongate racemes; mostly lowland heaths"	"Comesperma ericinum"
6	"Leaves flat or slightly concave above, concolorous; racemes usually corymbose; mostly wet montane or alpine heaths"	"Comesperma retusum"