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BethanyDunne wrote:

Yesterday

Oh good to know! I thought surely there wouldn't be a 20 year gap. Stunning little flower, very special.

Paraprasophyllum venustum

MattM wrote:

Yesterday

I saw P. venustum flowering there February 2024. I think I have only seen P. venustum in that herbfield. The herbfield to the north only had P. viriosum flowering last year, however I have seen both species flowering there in previous years.

Paraprasophyllum venustum

MattM wrote:

Yesterday

Nice find. Not a species I would expect to see in the ACT.

Paspalidium distans

RobG1 wrote:

Yesterday

@Csteele4 Hi Tina, the flower was large and the sinus was rough (scabrous), unlike D decurvum. The base of the galea was more bulbous (or inflated) than D decurvum. There was a more shrivelled D coccinum in the same colony. Jean Egan and Derek Corrigan were also present when we found this flower and agreed it was D coccinum. I just think the flower was beginning to contort and collapse with age.

Diplodium coccinum

Csteele4 wrote:

Yesterday

@RobG1 Looking at the curve and the flaring at the edges of the dorsal sepal, I don't feel like this ID is correct. Perhaps a hybrid. I don't think it is Pterostylis coccina/Diplodium coccinum.

Diplodium coccinum