7 Alpine midge orchid at suppressed
Identification history
| Corunastylis turfosa | 7 Jan 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Caleana major | 20 Dec 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Corunastylis turfosa | 20 Dec 2023 | forest17178 |
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Significant sighting
Tapirlord noted:
20 Dec 2023
Rare, cryptic, and incredibly difficult to find even if you know what you are looking for. This is a fantastic sighting and an outlying population.
User's notes
Swamp, South East Forests NP, with Empodisma minus and Asperula gunnii
6 comments
TobiasHayashi
wrote:
1 Jan 2024
Hard to be sure from the photos, but looks more like Corunastylis formosa than C turfosa. Would make more sense on range too. I saw 30+ C formosa in the same area a couple of days ago.
forest17178
wrote:
1 Jan 2024
Thanks Tobias, I've submitted it to the herbarium so will see what they come back with. Thought turfosa with a 10x lens in motel light!
Tapirlord
wrote:
2 Jan 2024
Thanks Tobias, now that you say it C.formosa does make more sense particularly at this site. I'll undo the ID and await confirmation from the herbarium.
forest17178
wrote:
5 Jan 2024
Hi Tobias and Tapirlord, Mark Clements at the CSIRO Herbarium has confirmed this as Corunostylis turfosa! He has also confirmed our Thelymitra alpicola record from nearby (same swamp from memory) so there is a relationship between orchids in this swamp and those in KNP (noting that T alpicola has also been recorded from the Clyde). Thanks, Rob
forest17178
wrote:
6 Jan 2024
It's possible they are both there too? It's pretty common to find several Corunostylis at the one site, although I'm less sure of this in swampy habitats
Tapirlord
wrote:
7 Jan 2024
I will maintain the record as C.turfosa then on Mark's advice. Very interesting!
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Dec 2023 04:32 PM Recorded on
- forest17178 Recorded by
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Collections
Photographic Competition - image of greatest conservation significance
Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- False In flower
Species information
- Corunastylis turfosa Scientific name
- Alpine midge orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
- Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Genoplesium turfosum
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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