2 Brown-clubbed Spider Orchid at Tennent, ACT
Identification history
| Caladenia parva | 1 Aug 2018 | TonyWood | ||
| Caladenia parva | 31 Jul 2018 | MatthewFrawley |
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Historical photo from 8 October 2010, guessing ID of Caladenia phaeoclavia.
5 comments
TonyWood
wrote:
1 Aug 2018
Hi Matthew, both C. phaeoclavia and C. atrovespa are found on Mt Tennent, and they are not easy to tell apart. I think this is C. phaeoclavia, based on the thick clubs.
TobiasHayashi
wrote:
24 Aug 2018
Yes, phaeoclavia. I'm wondering where the atrovespa on Mt Tennent might be Tony, and how confident you are they are atrovespa? Seems to be all the spiders in that region proved to be phaeoclavia when I did baiting with them. Might have to dig out my Honours and check.
TonyWood
wrote:
25 Aug 2018
Hi Tobias. I will have to go back and check my photos. They appeared on Mt Tennent in huge numbers following the 2003 fires, including some colour variants. I had assumed they were all C. atrovespa, whereas the ones that MAC showed me lower down (ie close to the road) I understood to be C. phaeoclavia
gregbaines
wrote:
29 Aug 2018
Tobias if you look at the distribution data for C. atrovespa there is a photo of a plant that I posted in 2014 that Tony identified as atrovespa from Mt Tennent. It was right beside the road and the co-ordinates should be accurate.
TonyWood
wrote:
30 Aug 2018
I am reasonably certain that both species occur on Mt Tennent. I was shown C. phaeoclavia by Mark Clements. As I said in my first post, they are very difficult to tell apart with confidence.
Location information
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Tennent, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 8 Oct 2010 08:40 AM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
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Collections
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Additional information
- True In flower
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
Species information
- Caladenia parva Scientific name
- Brown-clubbed Spider Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 216 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Arachnorchis phaeoclavia Caladenia phaeoclavia
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