A very interesting find. Observed whilst looking at Caladenia alata. What I presume is a premature flower... It seems the name precocious is the best term I can find at the moment. Based on what has formed it would likely fit somewhere in the T. vernosa/T ixiodes with the spotted petals and very fleshy leaves (almost cylindrical). Possibly flowering brought on by a sudden rise in temperature! Interested to see if anyone else has observed this in NZ orchids?
I think this is finally an encounter with "Trotters".
Riverside adjacent in fine gravels with a thin layer of tree tutu and kānuka bits. Very dark, exceptionally hairy.
A good number of flowering plants observed, although most were finished.
Pale form.
Locally common in regenrating shrubland.
All plants seen at this location had pinkish-white washed out flowers (warning - I am colour blind in the red-blue spectra so that is what I see it may not be what you see). As is typical of Chatham Islands Thelymitra nervosa the post anther lobe is 'horse-shoe' shaped, reddish, tuberculate but lacks the yellow margin commonly seen in New Zealand specimens of this species.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/18553843 is an observation of a Chatham Islands plant with the more usual colouration.
house made of liverworts I think
Photos by Gordon Sylvester. Labelled P. curta, but this isn't a species present in New Zealand.
Photos by Gordon Sylvester. Labelled P. curta, but this isn't a species present in New Zealand.
One mature plant on gumland roadside with smaller immature plants. Growing with stunted LEUfas, ULEeur and the moss CAMint.
Small population on ultramafic alluvial debris, regenerating cut-over pine forest.
Flower photo is an old protandrous flower in female stage.
I was to late in the day to see it open so I picked it and put it in my greenhouse and every flower on the inflorescence opened this was the last one.
a couple of pink ones
two different shades of blue/purple flowers on the first one. a little bit of that on the 2nd one.
deep jagged split.
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4 clumps seen, all pale pink
On edge of track which used to be pine forest 3 years ago, but is now mostly gorse scrub. In clay soil. Only one seen.
I think I know what species it is, but I'll see if anyone gives it a different ID.
Some observations:
These plants of which there were many, are very pale. The leaves, bracts and stems are all the same colour, leaves are chanelled but not ribbed, and the flowers have a very delicate scent...
More scented flowers...=)
Historic flood plain. This plant had an interesting coloured column no dark colouring what-so-ever... the only one like it.
Okay, so i have never seen anything like this before. The flower seems to be deformed, but from what? It was a single specimen with no mates to be seen nearby... Any thoughts anyone? @jack4
Tag naming it 'frog'. Not sure what this is. I would have said just a freak, but there were two plants about 7 metres apart, so... Plant 400-600mm tall, thin narrow-channeled leaf, 2 bracts, 4-6 flowers. I thied to find something else like them but no good, apart from one other slightly similar I found in Welling a while back... The substrate was shallow volcanic almost brittle quartz over basalt I think... Any thoughts?@haydenj @bill-nz @joedillon @robbiegraham @ianstgeorge
"Orange top". Never saw it any more open than this.
I came accros this specimen whilst trying to look at something else, the head of the flower had been knocked off in a recent storm and was nearby so i thought i should have a look at what it was, and this flower was revealed, the column does not fit T. longifolia but the colour does, so i have gone with the suggested ID, any thoughts?.. @bill-nz
Slightly pink form. Sparse cilia.
A few plants above cut bank in gumland roadside with LEPlat and MORaff under LEPhol.
Several flowers in bud on the Barra track to mitre flats hut
Four plants along track. Known population. Flowers early.
Mission accomplished! Plants coating about 10-15m of the bank on the upper side, 1m on part of the lower side. Hard to miss! About half a dozen fully flowering plants, then several times that with flower budding, but mostly just leaves.
Occasional, in coastal herbfield
A shame... Only seen on a couple of plants.
Many lives and fortunes have been squandered on Maud Island Racing Weevils.
(but actually: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/17525/BrockelsbyMScThesis.pdf)
One of 2 plants next to the Kill Devil track
In dry snow tussock, Bealey Spur
Hybrid T. Sp 'Kalbarri' x campanulata
This entity does not make any sense, is it the suggested sp? The dark line below the column terminus is not as prominent as the Northland sp. but there is a good argument to be had... maybe... Recent clearance has left the area very much changed, lucky to find remnant plants...
Took an hour to find some more to try and validate whether the previous one (https://inaturalist.nz/observations/179251975) was perhaps stunted and others were ready to go, but no, these additional ones seem to be even less developed than the first one was on 4 August! But very interesting - growing straight out/through the fungi layer under the leaves. Could probably visit again in September at this point.
In beech forest track side.
Leaf damaged, possibly by browsing hare.
Putative winter flowering Thelymitra nervosa x longifolia according to Dr Carlos Lehnebach. To be confirmed.
This area has in the past said to have only contained C. 'Pygmy', I would like to challenge that assumption as this entity shares all of the traits of Corybas 'rimutaka' which is what I believe it be. The internal hairs inside the labellum are in the same density and position, the dorsal sepal in profile is a match and the small size is also alike. Some feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. @jeremy_rolfe @memopop
biggest one I saw for a flower but still a small leaf.
Gliophorus - unclear graminicolor or viridis
Private property, location not accurate.
Not at all sure of ID, as this is rather an odd time of year for it to be flowering ... but then we've had a very odd summer/autumn
Only plant seen. Flowering 27 May. Paler colour small with a lax flower
Aongatete Short Loop Track
A good 6 weeks earlier than I usually see them in flower here
clump of them
Wetland. Only one seen.
Beech Forest. Below manuka, much larger size than that of last post.
The small variant of this species, only about 80mm tall slim leaf, single flower bloom at a time... =)
In salt-turf community on a cliff. Quite a few specimens.