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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 16h

McGFrath Flats was one of the sites I discussed on my recent talk about Fossil Insects, and that I'll probably be doing again for the WA Naturalists Club main branch

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 3d

The seeds also germinate readily after fire. In Australia it’s number six in the list of economically costly weeds, from its effect on crop yields.

GSB2024, Wongan Hills - Lake Ninan

Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 3d

Native to the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, but now an invasive weed in deserts and drier areas across much of the world. Not only do the seeds become sticky after rain, the entire plant can break off at the base and blow around as a tumbleweed.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 3d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7971294... #3198 - Brassica tournefortii - Saharan Mustard

Named after Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, an 18th-century French botanist who among other achievments coined the word herbarium.

Eaten in N. African cuisine, such as the Libyan dish Couscous bil Aslooz.

#3198 - Brassica tournefortii - Saharan Mustard

Named after Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, an 18th-century French botanist who among other achievments coined the word herbarium. Native to the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, but now an...

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 5d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

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And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

Like asteroideum, a microgeophyte, surviving summer as small corms.

GSB2024, Wongan Hills - Dingo Rock Inselberg

Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

Another Near Treatened Triggerplant, although finding this one out at Dingo Rock was highly surprising, given almost all the previous records are from a small patch of the Mundaring State Forest much closer to Perth.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7970714... #3197 - Stylidium rubricalyx - Apron Triggerplant

Observation andf photo by @gemfyre

Named for the red colour of the flowerbuds.

#3197 - Stylidium rubricalyx - Apron Triggerplant

Observation andf photo by @gemfyre Named for the red colour of the flowerbuds. Another Near Treatened Triggerplant, although finding this one out at Dingo Rock was highly surprising, given almost all....

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

A Near Threatened microgeophytic species of Triggerplant, growing from tiny drought resistant corms in the wetter months, found only a scattered locations across the Western Wheatbelt. In this case on top of the Dingo Rock Inselberg.

GSB2024 , Wongan Hills - Dingo Rock Inselberg

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7970678... #3196 - Stylidium asteroideum

Observation and photo by Chris Punter.

#3196 - Stylidium asteroideum

Observation and photo by Chris Punter. A Near Threatened microgeophytic species of Triggerplant, growing from tiny drought resistant corms in the wetter months, found only a scattered locations across...

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

Another WA endemic, common across the SW corner. The tiny flowers can be more pink than the ones here.

GSB2024, Wongan Hills - Reynoldson Flora Reserve.

Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7970642... #3195 - Stylidium repens - Matted Triggerplant

A creeping or scrambling triggerplant, which can spread over large areas as a tangled mat of stems and aerial roots.

#3195 - Stylidium repens - Matted Triggerplant

A creeping or scrambling triggerplant, which can spread over large areas as a tangled mat of stems and aerial roots. Another WA endemic, common across the SW corner. The tiny flowers can be more pink....

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

A creeping perennial Triggerplant which forms in compact clumps up to 15 cm wide, endemic to the south west corner of Western Australia, usually in eucalyptus woodland or shrublands.

GSB2024 Wongan Hills - various locations.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7970606... #3194 - Stylidium eriopodum - Woolly-footed Triggerplant

AKA Candollea breviscapa and Stylidium breviscapum. First described in 1839, in the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis published by the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

#3194 - Stylidium eriopodum - Woolly-footed Triggerplant

AKA Candollea breviscapa and Stylidium breviscapum. First described in scientific literature in 1839, in the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis published by the Swiss botanist Augustin....

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

Which surprisingly is unrelated to the possible evidence of protocarnivory in the genus, with sticky glandular hairs producing digestive enzymes.

GSB2024 Wongan Hills - various locations.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

One of Western Australia’s many, many species of Stylidium. Like other Stylidiums, distinguished by the mild concussion or gutpunch they inflict in pollinating insects that trigger the spring-loaded reproductive column.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

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#3193 - Stylidium leptophyllum - Needle-leaved Triggerplant

The stilted inland form of the species, which has an essentially Wheatbelt distribution.

#3193 - Stylidium leptophyllum - Needle-leaved Triggerplant

The stilted inland form of the species, which has an essentially Wheatbelt distribution. One of Western Australia's many, many species of Stylidium. Like other Stylidiums, distinguished by the mild...

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

A prostrate, almost leafless, herbaceous subshrub that comes up in profusion after bushfires.

The genus of twenty species has an impressive range of colours - blue, green, yellow, red and white - making them highly prized for horticultural work.

GSB2023 Wongan Hills - various locations.

Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

However, when Robert Brown (1773–1858) & ‘the father of Australian botany’ first published the name he spelt it Lechenaultia, omitting the ’s’. The spelling without the ’s’ is considered valid by Australian taxonomists.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

The correct spelling of the generic name, Lechenaultia, is open to some argument. It was named after Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de La Tour, a French botanist and ornithologist who visited Australia in 1802-3.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

Slightly peculiar-looking examples of a wildflower widespread here the SW of WA. They normally look like this -

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7970135... #3192 - Leschenaultia biloba - Blue Leschenaultia

#3192 - Leschenaultia biloba - Blue Leschenaultia

Slightly peculiar-looking examples of a wildflower widespread here the SW of WA. They normally look like this - The correct spelling of the generic name, Lechenaultia, is open to some argument. It was...

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

A small erect annual with leaves of surprisingly variable shape. Widespread in the drier parts of SW WA, much more rare in South Australia and the far west of New South Wales.

GSB2024 Wongan Hills - various locations

Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

Auguste Bérard was the surgeon on Louis de Freycinet’s circumnavigation of the globe, which among other things produced the first complete map of Australia’s coastline. 160 years later Roger Charles Carolin moved the species to Goodenia.

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Drhoz @drhoz.bsky.social · 5d

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7970026... #3191 - Goodenia berardiana

First described in 1829 by French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré as Distylis berardiana.

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