Excursion to Dalco Creek, 15 Mar 2009
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Forest groundsel, Found in the middle of a logged and burnt area we passed while walking to the creek. AmT |
Senecio velleioides often occurs in the thousands in disturbed areas (e.g. wildfire over wet forest, clearfelled and burnt sites). Oddly, it remains listed as a threatened species ('rare') despite a widespread distribution, often locally abundant populations, and an apparent high tolerance of intensive disturbance. Close-up of S. velleioides. MW |
One of the targets of our excursion, the Slender tree fern, Cyathea cunninghamii. The species is presently listed as threatened ('endangered'). AbT LF
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Liverwort. AbT |
Liverwort. AbT
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Caterpillar. AbT |
Pseudobargylia iuncea. An unusually elongated and wingless assassin bug that is probably a predator of spiders and psocids and walks on only its rearmost four legs. Its raptorial forelegs are armed with spines and the bug swings its upper body rapidly from side to side, which makes it very difficult to photograph. AbT |
Prostomis atkinsoni beetle and larva in the 'mud guts' of a rotten log near where we had lunch. LF |
Callomelitta picta, one of the species of native bees that are important pollinators of Eucalypts. AbT |
A beetle larva. AbT |
Isopod. AbT |
Psathyrella aff. pennata. AmT |
Pipe cleaner moss, Ptychomnion aciculare. LF
Cyathophorum bulbosum (above) is a moss that looks like a fern and often encircles tree trunks. The capsules are hidden underneath. LF |
Umbrella moss, Hyopterygium rotulatum. LF |
Gypsy fern. LF |
Fork fern, Tmesipteris obliqua. LF |
Hymenophyllum australe. One of the filmy ferns which are all one cell thick. LF |
Sori (spore clusters) on a Grammitis fern frond. AmT |
Photos by Abbey Throssell, Amanda Thomson, Lynne Forster, Mark Wapstra, Michael Driessen |