Gentianella sp.
A Gentian at Cotter River, ACT
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| Gentianella sp. | MichaelMulvaney | 17 Jun 2025 | |
| Gentianella polysperes | Csteele4 | 7 Jan 2025 | |
| Gentianella sylvicola | Tapirlord | 3 Aug 2024 | |
| Gentianella sp. | MB | 2 Aug 2024 |
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5 comments
3 Aug 2024
Potentially very very exciting, the suggested species hasn't been seen in the ACT for decades. i'll get back to you
3 Aug 2024
@Tapirlord Since this may be a significant sighting, I have dug up my GPS track and matched the photo time and updated the location coordinates. It's probably accurate to 100 m.
7 Jan 2025
@Tapirlord doing the clean-up. Only one sighting for your suggested species on iNat, and it is by Jackie Miles, who left very comprehensive notes. Using those notes and PlantNet, my conclusion is that this is unlikely to be G sylvicola (her specimen was flowering in April) and instead is G polysperes. Thoughts?
8 Jan 2025
My suggestion was based off the sighting notes which say the plant was flowering in mid April. That would make it either G.Sylvicola or G.muelleriana at this altitude. It would be quite late and quite high for G.polysperes.
17 Jun 2025
Worth checking out again this August and hopefully capture leaves and whole plant
Location information
- Coordinates 148.786445-35.532497
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 13 Apr 2023 10:40 AM Recorded on
- MB Recorded by
- Yes In flower
Collections
Species information
- Gentianella sp. Scientific name
- A Gentian Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 2119m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Chionogentias sp.
Seasonal activity
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In flower
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Record quality
Quality score
3 / 7
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- Additional attributes
- More than one media file
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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