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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
18 Oct 2024
*Stackhousia subterranea* – this looks like !
Thickened leaves.
Apparently in these two photographs, these growing stalks have underground joins by rhizomes.
In these two photographs, on these buds, I can just make out some saccate lower bracts at the bases of the most grown flowers' buds .
Quotation from Barker (2007):
"
*S. subterranea* differs from *S. monogyna*
s.str. by its horizontal roots deep in the soil, from which
clonal aerial stems or clusters of stems arise (Barker
1986, 1999), its thick rather fleshy leaves, its bracts
outwardly saccate in the basal half or two-thirds (Barker
1977, fig. 1A), ...
" .
References :
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• *Stackhousia* (genus) page, key to species : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2467
• *Stackhousia subterranea* : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/bd1cb980-9042-4f5a-aecf-d1285614c473
.
• Barker, William R. (2007)
*Stackhousia subterranea*, a new name and revised circumscription for S. gunnii Hook. f.(Stackhousiaceae∼ Celastraceae).
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 21 : 90–91 .
.
Thickened leaves.
Apparently in these two photographs, these growing stalks have underground joins by rhizomes.
In these two photographs, on these buds, I can just make out some saccate lower bracts at the bases of the most grown flowers' buds .
Quotation from Barker (2007):
"
*S. subterranea* differs from *S. monogyna*
s.str. by its horizontal roots deep in the soil, from which
clonal aerial stems or clusters of stems arise (Barker
1986, 1999), its thick rather fleshy leaves, its bracts
outwardly saccate in the basal half or two-thirds (Barker
1977, fig. 1A), ...
" .
References :
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• *Stackhousia* (genus) page, key to species : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2467
• *Stackhousia subterranea* : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/bd1cb980-9042-4f5a-aecf-d1285614c473
.
• Barker, William R. (2007)
*Stackhousia subterranea*, a new name and revised circumscription for S. gunnii Hook. f.(Stackhousiaceae∼ Celastraceae).
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 21 : 90–91 .
.
Stackhousia subterranea
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
16 Oct 2024
Commonly occurring species.
(Not to confuse with decumbent growing, north–west Vic. occurring, superficially similar looking *Goodenia varia*) .
References (in brief, without full citation):
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/7c262d05-5380-49b4-8470-2510a01b5ac9
.
(Not to confuse with decumbent growing, north–west Vic. occurring, superficially similar looking *Goodenia varia*) .
References (in brief, without full citation):
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/7c262d05-5380-49b4-8470-2510a01b5ac9
.
Goodenia ovata
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
10 Oct 2024
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/88b31d41-7bd4-4583-ae99-56a728936720
.
.
Allium triquetrum
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
10 Oct 2024
References (in brief, without full citation):
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• *Ranunculus* (genus page) key to species → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2168
• *Ranunculus repens* → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/637a5bce-467f-410d-b032-b9f61492ecdf
.
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• *Ranunculus* (genus page) key to species → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2168
• *Ranunculus repens* → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/637a5bce-467f-410d-b032-b9f61492ecdf
.
Ranunculus repens
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