Brown Beaks at Canberra Central, ACT
Identification history
| Lyperanthus suaveolens | 28 Sep 2015 | TobiasHayashi | ||
| Lyperanthus suaveolens | 28 Sep 2015 | AaronClausen |
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A single plant in a very unusual spot. Not reported here before and seems a weird place to find it!?!? Actually there's a second one that's been grazed off right next to it. Two plants in total.
12 comments
AaronClausen
wrote:
29 Sep 2015
Upon further inspection, I think there was another 5 or so shoots surrounding this plant, but none of them had buds or flowers, they may have been grazed or not yet developed.. Still I can't believe where these were!
AaronClausen
wrote:
29 Sep 2015
Tobias this was right near your really early flowering atrovespa single plant. Remember that spot? Crazy that these were there in the same little area.
TonyWood
wrote:
29 Sep 2015
Good find Aaron. Not far from a known Lyperanthus colony so not surprised to find it there.
AaronClausen
wrote:
29 Sep 2015
Good to know Tony... I was very surprised to spot this one as this species wasn't even on my radar...
TonyWood
wrote:
1 Oct 2015
Your directions were spot Aaron and found it almost immediately. However, didn't see a single flower, there were in fact 5 flower spikes in one grass clump that I could see from the road and 3 metres to the right another grass clump had 3 flower spikes, so in fact a significant colony.
AaronClausen
wrote:
1 Oct 2015
Good to hear Tony - if you saw the 5 spikes then the flower would have been super obvious, so it must have been chewed off by some hungry roo which is a bummer.
TonyWood
wrote:
1 Oct 2015
Perhaps my comment wasn't clear. Didn't see any sign of grazing. Every flower spike had several flowers. There were at least two separate colonies. Not even sure that we saw your plant, but it was definitely the same spot.
AaronClausen
wrote:
1 Oct 2015
Oh sorry yes I did mis-read that Tony. Brilliant news... Were they fully opened up and developed?
Location information
- Maps Black Mountain
- Places Canberra Central, ACT
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- 28 Sep 2015 12:41 PM Recorded on
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- Lyperanthus suaveolens Scientific name
- Brown Beaks Common name
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