A Hyacinth Orchid at Canberra Central, ACT
Identification history
| Dipodium sp. | 27 Nov 2015 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 19 Nov 2015 | MattM |
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Mt Majura. Different location to the current known ones.
13 comments
AaronClausen
wrote:
19 Nov 2015
Wow Matt, top find!!! I'm keen to know where this baby is. Your GPS is playing up big time still.
MattM
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
This is probably Dipodium roseum. It's growing near the colony of C. atrovespa... or not... I couldn't see them so late in the season.
AaronClausen
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
Wow all the way over there. A very good find and Waltraud will be interested to know there are more. It would be mind blowing if you found the other punctatum species at Majura as well.
MattM
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
Perhaps, but I would assume its the same species as the known colony, which are currently very, very tall.
waltraud
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
Matt I'd be over the moon if this is a second colony; I've wrote a mail to CNM - A, please pass on.
as far as I now the species is only known from namadgi/tidbinbillaarea area and one specimen from Aranda Bushland.
as far as I now the species is only known from namadgi/tidbinbillaarea area and one specimen from Aranda Bushland.
AaronClausen
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
Waltraud of course we are the new orchid hot spot of the ACT. Proud to be a Majura local!!!!!!
MattM
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
I was with a friend at the time, so couldn't look for more, but decided to report it regardless. It's still only a short walk from the others, so could very well be the same species as them, but it is only 20 cm in height, as opposed to the really tall ones around the scribbly gum. I didn't count those myself, but there might be more than 10. While I'm at it, I should point out that the Caledenia actensis we observed for the rare plant walk have not been pollinated.
AaronClausen
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
Nooooooooo! We need to get Tobias onto the Actensis pollinator, he's the master and will know.
Matt do you agree that this new hyacinth orchid you've found is kind of dull in colour just like the other Majura ones. Where as the Gungahlin Hill punctatum one was brighter and more colourful/vibrant even at very early development stages. So I'm betting this will be another roseum.
Matt do you agree that this new hyacinth orchid you've found is kind of dull in colour just like the other Majura ones. Where as the Gungahlin Hill punctatum one was brighter and more colourful/vibrant even at very early development stages. So I'm betting this will be another roseum.
MattM
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
As Tony said, it's too early to tell. This one is a bit darker than the rest of them, less than half the height, and far less developed.
waltraud
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
From memory the specimen that we saw and that are hosted most likely by one euc were of very different size; could well be that it is a D roseum dwarfling... And they are not "dull" in colour Aaron but exquisite.
AaronClausen
wrote:
20 Nov 2015
Sorry Waltraud, yes totally my bad, I definitely used poor wording there. They absolutely are!
Location information
- Places Canberra Central, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Nov 2015 10:03 AM Recorded on
- MattM Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Orchids MattM Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Dipodium sp. Scientific name
- A Hyacinth Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
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In flower
