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| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Carrots (Apiales); 1 species, none from Ellura - Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Sweet Apple-berry Billardiera cymosa ssp cymosa iNaturalist | LC m c | Thank you (Pennywort_Man
) for confirming the id of this species for us A slender climber. We put all climbers and creepers under "Vines" Imaged 4(1Fr) in Jan(1Fr) & Oct(3) Imaged between 18-Oct-2022 and 01-Jan-2025 |
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Betalains (Caryophyllales); 6 species, 2 from Ellura - Ice Plant (Aizoaceae); 4 species, 2 from Ellura | Coastal Galenia Aizoon pubescens iNaturalist | If f c | Thank you Alan Dandie
(Alan_Dandie) for confirming the id of this species for us Has white or pink flowers. Imaged 3Fl in Jan(1Fl), Oct(1Fl) & Nov(1Fl) Imaged between 31-Oct-2021 and 01-Jan-2025 | |||
| Galenia Aizoon secundum iNaturalist | If m |
Thank you Ernst Weiher for confirming the id of this species for us Has white or pink flowers. It's much hairier than it's relation, Aizoon pubescens, which is also introduced in Australia and seems more common. Imaged 1Fl on 17-Sep-2021 | ||||
| Lens Pigface Carpobrotus sp iNaturalist | RA e m |
Thank you Ralph Foster for identifying this species for us Large triangular, green to purple, succulent, vertical leaves. Brilliant purple flower with white centre. Sprawling habit that can completely cover square metres of ground. We thought this was C. modestus, but recently found an SA factsheet that indicates that the size of flower for C. modestus <= 20mm (ours are >35mm) and that C. modestus has 20-80 stamen (ours have 100-600) are diagnostic. This factsheet points to Carpobrotus rossii; so we renamed our species as this. Ralph then highlighted to us that the inland specimens of C. rossii are probably going to all be renamed; currently an undescribed species labelled Carpobrotus sp. Short calyx. Research is still ongoing to described them and provide morphological differences to separate out the two species. Imaged 20(4Fl) in Feb(1), Mar(1), May(1), Jun(1), Jul(3), Aug(5:1Fl), Sep(6:2Fl) & Oct(2:1Fl) Imaged between 19-Jun-2012 and 22-Jul-2023 | ||||
| Desert Spinach Tetragonia eremaea iNaturalist | LC e m f | Thank you Dr Manfred Jusaitis for confirming the id of this species for us The flowers are tiny at only ~4mm tip to tip. As they are the same colour as the stem & leaf they are very hard to see. There are 2 flowers per leaf axis. Imaged 2(1Fl) in Sep Imaged between 11-Sep-2020 and 04-Sep-2023 | ||||
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Betalains (Caryophyllales); 6 species, 2 from Ellura - Four o'clock (Nyctaginaceae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Tah-vine Boerhavia dominii iNaturalist | LC m f |
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 1Fl on 03-Nov-2021 |
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Betalains (Caryophyllales); 6 species, 2 from Ellura - Knotweed (Polygonaceae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Coastal Climbing Lignum Muehlenbeckia gunnii iNaturalist | RA m c |
Thank you Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 3Fl in Oct Imaged between 16-Oct-2022 and 18-Oct-2022 |
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Vines (Cucurbitales); 2 species, none from Ellura - Gourd (Cucurbitaceae); 2 species, none from Ellura | Paddymelon Citrullus colocynthis | If m |
These can grow much larger than shown here. But this is a good comparision between the smooth and prickly paddymelons, as well as a mallee leaf Imaged 1 on 30-Jun-2011 | ||
| Prickly Paddymelon Cucumis myriocarpus ssp myriocarpus | If m |
Imaged 1 on 30-Jun-2011 | |||
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Legumes (Fabales); 1 species, none from Ellura - Legume (Fabaceae or Leguminosae); 1 species, none from Ellura | |||
| Most species in this family have an orchid like flower, a pea flower, with two petals protruding out the front (often referred to as a beak; aka bird beak) then 2 vertical petals making a bit of a face. The vertical petals are often fused together, but usually have a notch at the top, in the middle, where they would separate into 2 petals. One notable exception to these flowers are the Wattles (Acacia sp) which all have identical flowers; eucalypt like petalless afairs with the stamens making a round ball. The species in this genus are separated based on leaf shape, seed aril and how the flowers are arranged (on peduncles, or not, single or grouped, etc). The other exception are the Senna's. These have 5 yellow petals arrange in a cup shape. | Native Lilac Hardenbergia violacea | RA m a |
Imaged 4 in Aug(3) & Oct(1) Imaged between 03-Aug-2003 and 27-Aug-2017 |
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Laurales (Laurales); 2 species, none from Ellura - Laurels (Lauraceae); 2 species, none from Ellura | Slender Devil's Twine Cassytha glabella iNaturalist | NT m c | Thank you (GrampiansHiker) for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 1(1B,1Fl) on 01-Jan-2025 | |
| Course Dodder-laurel Cassytha melantha iNaturalist | LC m | Thank you Peter Crowcroft for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 1 on 13-Mar-2020 | ||
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Spurges, Violets & Allies (Malpighiales); 1 species from Ellura - Spurge (Euphorbiaceae); 1 species from Ellura | Caustic Spurge Anisophyllum sp iNaturalist | LC e m |
Thank you Dr Kym Nicolson for confirming the id of this species for us We used to have this down as Euphorbia drummondii, then some years ago they split them into over 10 different species. Dr Nathan Taylor said on iNaturalist "The plants can't be keyed without looking at seeds." Since we've never collected the seed, we don't know which of this Anisophyllum section (a subset of the Euphorbia genus) they are. Imaged 31(1Fl,1Fr) in Jan(3), Feb(4), Mar(9), Apr(3), May(4), Jun(1), Jul(1), Aug(4), Sep(1) & Oct(1:1Fl,1Fr) Imaged between 18-Jan-2004 and 19-Oct-2020 |
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Myrtles (Myrtales); 1 species, none from Ellura - Myrtle (Myrtaceae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Muntries Kunzea pomifera iNaturalist | RA m c | Thank you Alan Dandie
(Alan_Dandie) for confirming the id of this species for us While classed as a "prostrate shrub", we think anyone coming to our web site to find out what this plant is would look under our "Vines" (creepers & climbers) page; hence it's current location. Let us know what you think. A typical white eucalypt / melaleuca type flower that Myrtales have, with red highlights; yet scattered around the ground. They are well known for their fruits/berries. Imaged 5(2Fl,1Fr) in Jan(1Fr), Jul(2) & Oct(2Fl) Imaged between 18-Oct-2022 and 01-Jan-2025 |
| Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Buttercups (Ranunculales); 1 species from Ellura - Buttercup (Ranunculaceae); 1 species from Ellura | Old Man's Beard Clematis microphylla iNaturalist | LC e m f c | Thank you Alan Dandie
(Alan_Dandie) for confirming the id of this species for us Creamy large flowers with 4 long oval petals. Green leaves. New stems are green going dark reddish brown with age. Imaged 13(3Fl,2Fr) in Jan(1Fr), May(1), Aug(4:1Fl), Sep(2Fl), Oct(2) & Nov(3:1Fr) Imaged between 30-Aug-2012 and 01-Jan-2025 |
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