Apsley Gorge
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Photos taken on 18th January 2003 of the walk from Budds Mare to Rowleys Creek
DCP_2019 12:50
Lunch. By this time it was getting pretty hot.
Rowleys Creek Grid Reference 981.06 738.17
DCP_2020 13:07
Text below from a Google cache of a site which no longer exists:
Lady's Slipper, Family Violaceae, Hybanthus monopetalus
Joseph Banks and his party saw this species at Botany Bay, Australia (28 April - 6 May 1770)
This is a delicate erect herblike shrub about 10-30 cm tall. It is common in sheltered spots in varied habitats. The blue flowers have 5 petals, but 4 are so tiny as to be inconspicuous. The fifth is 5-21mm long. Monopetalus is Latin for single-petalled. The leaves are narrow, 1-6cm long, and quite soft. Upper leaves are opposite, while the lower ones are alternate.
Rowleys Creek Grid Reference 981.06 738.17
Plant Identification: David Lawrence
Text below from:
Students Flora of North Eastern New South Wales Part II Gymno sperms - Key to Angiosperm families Angiosperms: Families 37 - 83 P 153
Flowers in a slender, leafless raceme longer than the leaves; peduncle up to 15 cm long. Lowest petal obovate, c. 12 mm long, blue. Leaves linear, 1-4 cm long, c. 2 mm wide, the lower ones alternate, the upper opposite. Herb to c. 20 cm high, very variable in leaf-size and length of peduncle. Widespread on Coast and Tablelands in forests, woodlands and heaths Q., Vic. Fl. spring-summer. (H. filiformis (DC.) F. Muell.).
H. monopetalus (Roem. et Schult.) Domin
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