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• Entoloma moongum

  30 Oct 2014 • -37.9,145.4 • Mark Ridgway

  About 50mm tall and wearing Halloween black but with classic free white gills and white mycelia around the base of the stipe. Also note slightly marginate gills. Entoloma moongum

  

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• Microtis arenaria Notched Onion-orchid

  30 Oct 2014 • -37.9,145.3 • Leuba Ridgway

  Called the "Notched Onion-orchid" this orchid plant was about 50 cm high. I could see a single long sheath like leaf from the centre of which rose a slender green stem bearing a spike of flowers. The central sepal was hooded covering the petals. Lateral sepals curled backwards. The lip was bilobed with a slightly wavy margin. At first this plant looked like it had unopened buds- the flowers were so small and are not conspicuous. They are apparently scented ! Spotted in semi-shade.

  

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  1. Mark Ridgway  Sweet!

     Reply • 06 Mar 2015
• Thelymitra ixioides s.l. Spotted Sun-orchid

  30 Oct 2014 • -37.9,145.3 • Leuba Ridgway

  Tall plant with beautiful blue flowers with purplish tinge ot the outer surface of sepals. Yellow pollinia was visible at the tip of the column. Stigmatic surface showed a dense tuft of white hairs. Leaves were erect and narrow ( not seen here). Spotted in semi-shade in a reserve with eucalypts and natives - dry sclerophyll forest. The flowers bloom in October and November.

  

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  1. Chris Lindorff  Hi Leuba. This species is not part of the pauciflora complex, but rather appears to be T. ixioides or possibly the hybrid named T. truncata.

     Reply • 07 Mar 2015

  2. • Leuba Ridgway  Thank you for the information Chris. I have spotted T.ixioides in the same area but it had dark spots. Is this a variant / or should I leave it at the genus level? Please advise. Thanks again.

       Reply • 07 Mar 2015

  3. Chris Lindorff  It can be variably spotted or even spotless. The character to concentrate on is the column, whereby here the column mid lobe has numerous sausage like glands. Hybrids of ixioides make it hard sometimes. With this one, I would go with ixioides. There a faint spots which are never present in pauciflora or nuda groups. Cheers.

     Reply • 07 Mar 2015

  4. • Leuba Ridgway  Thank you for the clarification Chris. I see some faint spots on at least one petal !!

       Reply • 08 Mar 2015
• Xerochrysum viscosum Shiny Everlasting Sticky Everlasting

  30 Oct 2014 • -37.5,145.2 • James Booth

  

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• Lampona cylindrata White-tailed Spider

  30 Oct 2014 • -38.1,147.1 • Suzanne Jones

  

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• Iropoca rotundata Iropoca Moth

  30 Oct 2014 • -37.8,144.3 • Cathy Powers

  

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