Green-comb Spider Orchid at Conder, ACT
Identification history
| Caladenia atrovespa | 12 Jul 2014 | MichaelBedingfield |
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11 comments
AaronClausen
wrote:
14 Sep 2014
Hi Michael, I wonder if you've observed any activity of this colony this year at all? They should be coming up, I am monitoring a colony at Black Mountain which are not far from flowering: http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sightings/Details/22849?Identified=true
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
14 Sep 2014
Hi Aaron. I haven't been to see them for a long time. I would not be able recognise them or find them unless they were in flower. So I am waiting for flowering time to revisit the area.
AaronClausen
wrote:
14 Sep 2014
Cool - makes sense Michael. I think that cluster of them that you've found there is quite significant as it was a previously unknown location for the ACT.. It looked really dense from your second image. The ones I know of at Black Mountain are about 5 plants which are several metres from one another - quite sparse.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
15 Sep 2014
I had no idea they were so rare. I thought they were Caladenia tentaculata. But then, many of the orchids I observed back then (around 2000) have been renamed. It really is a bit bewildering. So I put the photos up as unidentified to get Tony's opinion. I'll make it important to report back when I find them again.
TonyWood
wrote:
15 Sep 2014
They used to be called Caladenia aff tentaculata. Not particularly rare, but numbers do seem to have declined in recent years. One problem is from rabbits.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
16 Sep 2014
Thanks, Tony, for the clarification. The quality of the flora increases as you go deeper into the Rob Roy Reserve. I hoping that through this website, more people will explore the deeper parts and unlock some more of its secrets.
TonyWood
wrote:
16 Sep 2014
Hi Michael. I'm not familiar with the Rob Roy Range; obviously a place I must visit soon.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
29 Sep 2014
What is the correct name, Caladenia atrovespa or Arachnorchis atrovespa? We have both on the website.
TonyWood
wrote:
29 Sep 2014
My understanding is that Arachnorchis has reverted back to Caladenia, so Caladenia atrovespa is the correct (current) name.
Location information
- Maps Rob Roy Range
- Places Conder, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Orchids MichaelBedingfield Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True In flower
Species information
- Caladenia atrovespa Scientific name
- Green-comb Spider Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 376 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Arachnorchis atrovespa
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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