A Beard-Heath at Morton National Park
Identification history
| Leucopogon neoanglicus | 12 Mar 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Styphelia sp. | 12 Mar 2024 | Csteele4 |
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Styphelia ericoides (I suspect under a different name on here)
9 comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
12 Mar 2024
Looks like neoanglica rather than Ericoides. Good point re. The styphelia spilts, I’ve been meaning to put them through
Csteele4
wrote:
12 Mar 2024
@Tapirlord oops, I worked out it was neoanglica on iNat but didn't fix it here
Tapirlord
wrote:
12 Mar 2024
No worries haha, I’ve done it a million times. I don’t even want to know how much inconsistency there is between my two accounts!!
RogerF
wrote:
13 Mar 2024
For your interest this Site is Kris’s Knoll and it’s Flora has been extensively covered by ANPS and ORCHID groups. Also the impact of the 2020 fire and subsequent regeneration is being studied at this site. Plant lists are available on the Societies Web Site
Csteele4
wrote:
13 Mar 2024
@RogerF thank you, that is great to know! It is a wonderful little spot. I was working off a list of places I was given, mixed with stopping at random tracks, and this was one of the random stops. I've marked it to come back as it was full of my target genus - Corunastylis - but they had finished flowering.
RogerF
wrote:
13 Mar 2024
A single C. superba was recorded at this site in 2021 but it has not reappeared since. The spot is marked with a rock. The other Corunastylis species that emerged out of the ash post fire here and elsewherehave also largely disapppeared as the regenerating vegetation cover has closed in. C. superba seems the most resilient of the Corunastylis, still persisting at Bulee Pass and Touga Rd as you have no doubt seen. Another interesting orchid seen here at Kris's Knoll, only the once, is Cryptostylis leptochila.
Tapirlord
wrote:
14 Mar 2024
Corunastylis fimbriata, Coruanstylis apsotasioides & Coruanstylis oligantha are still reasonably widespread and in good numbers at KK (or at least Rob, Ned & I found this upon a visit in late Jan this year). At the very least, the numbers have not dropped off from last year. A fairly sizeable colony of Cryptostylis leptochila remains at the far end of the knoll (there are maybe 20 plants at the moment), they didn't flower this year.
Csteele4
wrote:
14 Mar 2024
RogerF
wrote:
14 Mar 2024
In February I only checked the south part of KK where large numbers of fimbriata and apostasioides emerged post fire in 2021 and have since disappeared.. Flowering was much earlier this year, presumably stimulated by the late November 2023 rains. Another interesting species that appeared post fire on the knoll in 2023 was Boronia rigens, now transferred to Cyanothamnus
Location information
- Coordinates 150.274028-35.100716
- Altitude 663.0m
- Maps Morton National Park
- Places Boolijah, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 10 Mar 2024 06:21 PM Recorded on
- Csteele4 Recorded by
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Plants Other Shrubs Csteele4 South Coast NatureMapr
Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- True In flower
- False Shrub(s) planted
Species information
- Leucopogon neoanglicus Scientific name
- A Beard-Heath Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1266.03m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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