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WendyEM wrote:
20 Mar 2025
Thanks Di
Leptoceridae sp. (family)
DiBickers wrote:
20 Mar 2025
Woah… look how long those antennae are!!😳😳Great photo @WendyM💚
Leptoceridae sp. (family)
Tapirlord wrote:
18 Oct 2024
Cheers Jason
Stackhousia subterranea
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 .
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Stackhousia subterranea
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
24 Sep 2024
Ref's (in brief, without full citations):

Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2266
• https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/8cbb51ca-be07-4da6-a65d-17cfa6b8483a
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