Diamond Ant Orchid at Point 5438
Identification history
| Chiloglottis trapeziformis | 28 Sep 2015 | TonyWood | ||
| Chiloglottis trapeziformis | 28 Sep 2015 | AaronClausen |
Identify this sighting
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
29 Sep 2015
Rarely recorded orchid only known from a few locations in the ACT
9 comments
MattM
wrote:
29 Sep 2015
Are these on the south side? There are thousands of Chiloglottis on the south side.
MattM
wrote:
30 Sep 2015
Rare? How so? I thought it was a common orchid on Black Mountain's south facing slopes. I've even found some growing in a drain!
TonyWood
wrote:
30 Sep 2015
I would not call them rare, and plenty to be found in sheltered gullies on BM, but not much elsewhere to date in the ACT.
AaronClausen
wrote:
30 Sep 2015
This is a good discussion guys, also what about C. trilabra numbers on Black Mountain versus C. trapeziformis?? I have seen thousands of Chiloglottis leaves on BM (yes in the gullies etc), but had assumed they were C. trilabra? Or is it the other way around?
MattM
wrote:
30 Sep 2015
I'm not sure. It might even be a mix. It's certainly hard to tell when "only a small proportion of plants in a colony produce flowers". I happened to visit one of my bush fire sites today, and half of it had Chiloglottis leaves, including flowering trapeziformis.
AaronClausen
wrote:
30 Sep 2015
Ok interesting Matt. Well I think we have plenty of more mapping to do then to paint a better picture of their distribution...!
TonyWood
wrote:
30 Sep 2015
Neither are especially common. But both are colony forming and when they appear it can be in large numbers. As colonies they tend to have a relatively small proportion of flowering plants.
Their flowering times of course are quite different.
Location information
- Maps Black Mountain
- Survey points Point 5438
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- AaronClausen Recorded by
-
Collections
Significant Plants Orchids AaronClausen Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True In flower
Species information
- Chiloglottis trapeziformis Scientific name
- Diamond Ant Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 175 images trained Machine learning
-
In flower
-
Synonyms
Myrmechila trapeziformis
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
