1 Green-comb Spider Orchid at Farrer, ACT
Identification history
| Caladenia atrovespa | 18 Nov 2022 | DerekC | ||
| Caladenia atrovespa | 18 Nov 2022 | Tapirlord |
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User's notes
Maybe 30 in flower when I was there but the population is much bigger than that.
4 comments
trevorpreston
wrote:
18 Nov 2022
Looks like you've been having some good luck with the orchids this year Tapirlord!
Tapirlord
wrote:
18 Nov 2022
Absolutely, Canberra orchid society certainly helps with that. I was watching this colony last year but didn't get to see them in flower, this year I managed to find time in between my exams.
julielindner
wrote:
18 Nov 2022
There are several colonies on Farrer Ridge in one place white ones but giving the coordinates leads to people digging them up last season someone dug up lots of donkey orchids. Have you found the Stegostyla congesta yet? I no longer report the whereabouts of orchids and rare plants that I find because even though the parks and conservation knew the site of spider orchids they wiped out most of one site with their fire truck when doing a control burn. Then dumped a pile of rocks on a colony of donkey orchids which never were seen again.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
18 Nov 2022
Julie was this recently (i.e. in the last few years) This is very poor and careless management and reflects very badly on the fire crews.
Location information
- Maps Farrer Ridge
- Places Farrer, ACT
Sighting information
Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- 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
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Synonyms
Arachnorchis atrovespa
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