Copper Beard Orchid at Point 60
Identification history
| Calochilus montanus | 5 Nov 2015 | TonyWood | ||
| Calochilus saprophyticus | 27 Oct 2015 | MichaelMulvaney |
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4 comments
MattM
wrote:
28 Oct 2015
I would presume it's C. montanus. However Tony hinted that they might be the same species. I saw a leaf in the photos. Apparently C. saprophyticus doesn't have a leaf. Is the browning leaf part of the plant in question?
MattM
wrote:
28 Oct 2015
Correction: they both have leaves, but C. saprophyticus doesn't have the large basal leave that montanus has. Apparently saprophyticus hasn't been seen on Black Mountain since 1995.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
29 Oct 2015
Thanks Matt - it looks the same as montanus, which I recorded within 5m of this record, but didn't appear to have a large basal leaf which I did see on the nearby montanus
MattM
wrote:
29 Oct 2015
That's so cool! I'd love to be able to compare the species so close together. Now I just need to find it...
Location information
- Maps Black Mountain
- Survey points Point 60
- Places Canberra Central, ACT
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- MichaelMulvaney Recorded by
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Plants Orchids MichaelMulvaney Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True In flower
Species information
- Calochilus montanus Scientific name
- Copper Beard Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 104 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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