Nicholls, ACT
Identification history
| Cryptandra spinescens | 12 Aug 2018 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Cryptandra amara | 24 Oct 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Monotoca scoparia | 22 Oct 2017 | gavinlongmuir |
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7 comments
BettyDonWood
wrote:
23 Oct 2017
Monotoca scoparia has narrow sharp leaves. I think this is an exotic, perhaps an Erica. It is not one of the common native plants in the heath family.
BettyDonWood
wrote:
25 Oct 2017
The clustered leaves and spine ended branchlets fit Cryptandra amara. However the flowers are extremely aberrant. If they are hairy at all, the hairs appear to be long silky hairs held close to the flower surface (appressed). The description in Plantnet says the hairs are short, with some long appressed hairs. In addition, if the flowers in the photos have brown bracts at the base at all, they are very small. Vicflora says the bracts are up to 1.5 mm long and much broader, were very noticeable in the photo attached to the fact sheet. The local plants used to be subsp. floribunda, which plantnet says is 4-6 mm long.
Gavin, could you give us some information about leaf and flower length please.
Gavin, could you give us some information about leaf and flower length please.
rainer
wrote:
12 Aug 2018
Cryptandra spinescens, which is found on the SW Slopes. I have seen something similar at Yass Gorge, not too far away, but have not collected it there. There appear to be bracts below the flowers, the leaves are obovate to lanceolate and branchlets spine-tipped as in Plantnet. See: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptandra~spinescens
BettyDonWood
wrote:
12 Aug 2018
Thanks Rainer. I should have thought of using the Plantnet key. Betty
rainer
wrote:
12 Aug 2018
No worries, but I’d say a specimen would be required for a positive ID (or has that already been collected?).
BettyDonWood
wrote:
12 Aug 2018
I agree that a specimen needs to be deposited at the Herbarium. The only sightings in and near the ACT on ALA are from the NSW Bionet Atlas and without specimens.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
13 Aug 2018
I have to check a development out that way in the next few days and will make a collection
Location information
- Coordinates 149.093033-35.196414
- Altitude 606.8m
- Maps Percival Hill
- Places Nicholls, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 15 Oct 2017 05:26 PM Recorded on
- gavinlongmuir Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Other Shrubs gavinlongmuir Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cryptandra spinescens
Additional information
- True In flower
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
Species information
- Cryptandra spinescens Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 747m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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