2 Bellfield, VIC
Identification history
| Pterostylis macilenta | 17 Oct 2023 | natureguy | ||
| Pterostylis macilenta | 16 Oct 2023 | natureguy | ||
| Pterostylis sp. | 16 Oct 2023 | AnneG1 |
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User's notes
2 plants, 1 with spent flowers. At around 20cm tall at 675m altitude growing next to granite on top of a lookout. Only 3 flowers. I think this is Pterostylis macilenta as described in the Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria (G.Backhouse). It had a very bristly labellum. Other choice is P.melagramma.
5 comments
natureguy
wrote:
16 Oct 2023
It's not one I'm particularly familiar with but I think you're right that the very hairy labellum sets this apart as P. macilenta, a nice one too as it's endemic to the Grampians
Tapirlord
wrote:
17 Oct 2023
Yes, P.macilenta or..........Bunochilus mcalinetus. We need to sort out our use of extended pterostylis. Noting that this species was described as Bunochilus maclinetus.
natureguy
wrote:
17 Oct 2023
On the Canberra platform we use Bunochilus I think but Vicflora lists Pterostylis.
Tapirlord
wrote:
17 Oct 2023
Yes, I am aware of that. My point goes to the fact that numerous species are found within multiple platform boundaries, and hence this dual name acceptance is confusing. For instance "Bunochilus montanus" (Montane Leafy Greenhood) is a name used on CNM, but if we were to find the same species here we would call it Pterostylis jonesii (at least according to Vicflora). It's not a good solution to maintain both names and hence we need to commit one way or the other. Personally, I think we should use extended Pterostylis, there is good morphological and Genetic evidence for this. I think the reason that many of these names are not more broadly accepted is because of dislike for the work of David Jones more than anything else.
natureguy
wrote:
17 Oct 2023
Yeah that sounds good to me, happy to work through that change at some point soon (theres a few other taxonomy changes to get around to as well).
Location information
- Maps Grampians National Park
- Places Bellfield, VIC
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 16 Oct 2023 12:47 PM Recorded on
- AnneG1 Recorded by
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- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- True In flower
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- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
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In flower
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