#floraofaustralia

The fairy lantern (Corybas barbarae) is a small terrestrial orchid endemic to eastern QLD and NSW (north of Sydney). The hairy labellum is covered by a large, curved, and inflated dorsal sepal. The linear lateral sepals are tiny (2mm), and the minute petals (1mm) are hidden by the labellum. It is believed that fungus gnats are its pollinators. Apart from that, little is known about its reproduction and dispersal mechanism.

One of my favourite Australian Solanaceae plants: Anthotroche walcottii. It's a hardy shrub in the Northern Sandplains of southwestern Western Australia. There are three species in this genus, all endemic to WA.

It took me 10 months to make this short video. It’s simply amazing to witness how these grass trees (Xanthorrhoea johnsonii) survived the bushfire and transformed from almost charcoals to full bloom in less than a year.

2024 Western Australia Wildflower Trip Day 5: Kalbarri National Park 2.

Came across my very first record of Australian quillwort: Isoetes gunnii. It grows in shallow water of a glacier lake in the central plateau of Tasmania.

The alpine glacier lakes of central Tasmania are the haven for many tiny but rare aquatic plant species. In this short video, you can see three Drosera species, two Isoetes species, one Trithuria species, one Utricularia species and one Centrolepis species, and they can be found growing next to two each other in an area of one or two square meters. Simply amazing!

Campynema lineare is a unique small herb endemic to Tasmania that grows in the island's boggy areas. It belongs to the small family of Campynemataceae, which consists of two genera only. The other genus Campynemanthe has three species and occurs in New Caledonia. 翠菱花

In the central highland of Tasmania, you have a very unique ‘grassland’, which does not consist of grasses but a sedge (#Gymnochoenus sphaerocephalus) and a fern (#Gleichenia Alpina).