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Christmas Bells - Blandfordia nobilis

Sunday, September 01, 2013

Another look at Shoalhaven Orchids - 31 August 2013

My friend Beth Boughton was invited to do a tour with Alan Stephenson and I, so she could see the Orchids she had heard about from me, and seen on my Blog.



Dockrillia pugioniformis
Dagger Orchid
Cambewarra Mtn


Dockrillia teretifolia
(These leaves are meant to be hanging down vertically)
please turn your head 90 degrees to the left.


Glossodia major
as seen at Myola Road, Myola.


Glossodia minor
A pure white form,
plus a regular coloured form

Not an Orchid.
A chance sighting and quick photo
of a Painted Button Quail
at Depot Road, Nowra



This was a surprise
when I looked closely at the photo
Petalochilus catenatus

Coonemia Creek.
I had assumed it was just a very pale form
of Petalochilus carneaBut it is too pure, too perfect.
Alan Stephenson has confirmed the ID as
"catenatus".


Petalochilus hillmanii


A nice pair of
Prasophyllum brevilabre


Pterostylis baptistii
A fine specimen of this handsome

King Greenhood.
Coonemia Creek


Pterostylis erecta colony
Barrengarry Mountain


Pterostylis erecta
Macquarie Pass,

1 September 2013



Pterostylis hildae
Macquarie Pass
1 September 2013


Speculantha vernalis
Depot Road, Nowra
31 August 2013
This is a spring flowering variant
of a group of tiny Greenhoods which
otherwise flower in summer.
Critically endangered and EPBC listed.
Sun Orchid
Thelymitra of indeterminate species
Probably Thelymitra ixioides variant.

Sarcochilus falcatus
Cambewarra Mtn.

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