Wednesday Walk – Trip to Nerriga Road – Bulee Pass and Touga Road – 26 October 2011
We drove from Bungendore via Tarago and Oallen Ford to the Nerriga Road. There was a lot flowering en route but we didn’t stop which was just as well because the display that we found at Bulee Pass and then at the start of Touga Road was outstanding. We were in sandstone country at first in the pagodas above Endrick River with many plants flowering – Leptospermum rotundifolium, Dampiera stricta, Hakea dactyloides, Philotheca scabra ssp. latifolia, Grevillea patulifolia, G. bauera ssp. asperula, Dillwynia sericea, Calytrix tetragona, Calochilus platychilus and many others. We then drove further to the start of Touga Road where we found many more species flowering including Phyllota phylicoides, Aotus ericoides, Daviesia acicularis, Pultenaea capitellata, Boronia algida, Kunzea parvifolia – just a wealth of colour. Some interesting orchids at this site were Calochilus campestris, Simpliglottis chlorantha and some very tall Thelymitra ixioides.
Pagodas at Bulee Gap Image by Lucinda Bulee Gap display Image by Lucinda Dampiera stricta Image by Roger Royston Royston Farrow
Sphaerolobium minus Image by Sphaerolobium vimineum Aotus ericoides Image by Phyllota phylicoides Image Roger Farrow Image by Roger Farrow Roger Farrow by Graeme Kruse
Mirbelia rubiifolia Image by Graeme Daviesia acicularis Image Goodenia heterophylla Hybanthus ? vernonii Image Kruse by Graeme Kruse Image by Graeme Kruse by Graeme Kruse
Simpliglottis chlorantha Isopogon anethifolius Image Calochilus platychilus & Kunzea Calochilus campestris Image by Graeme Kruse by Graeme Kruse parvifolia Image by Martin Image by Lucinda Royston Butterfield
Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Plant List for Nerriga Road Trip – 26 October 2011
? indicates that those present were unsure of the plant name
Bulee Gap Stylidium lineare Acacia brownii Stypandra glauca Acacia rubida Tetratheca bauerifolia Acacia sp. Thelionema caespitosa Acacia terminalis Thysanotus tuberosus Actinotus helianthi Xanthosia ? pilosa Allocasuarina littoralis Banksia ericifolia Lunch spot – Touga Road Banksia paludosa In addition Boronia algida Acacia obtusifolia Boronia anemonifolia Allocasuarina ? distyla Brachyloma daphnoides Amperea xiphoclada Calochilus platychilus Aotus ericoides Calytrix tetragona Austrodanthonia monticola Caustis flexuosa Banksia spinulosa Centrolepis fascicularis Billardiera scandens Comesperma ericinum Boronia algida Dampiera stricta Bossiaea buxifolia Dillwynia sericea Callistemon sp. Drosera sp. Calochilus campestris Epacris microphylla Cryptandra amara Eucalyptus sieberi Daviesia acicularis Gonocarpus micranthus ssp. micranthus Daviesia leptophylla Goodenia billedifolia Dianella revoluta Goodenia heterophylla ssp. heterophylla Diuris sulphurea Grevillea bauera ssp. asperula Drosera peltata Grevillea patulifolia Drosera pygmaea Hakea dactyloides Drosera sp. Hybanthus ? vernonii Haemadorum ?planifolium Isopogon anethifolius Hakea sericea Kennedia prostrata Helichrysum leucopsideum Kunzea parvifolia Hibbertia ? aspera Leptomeria acida Hibbertia ? fasciculata Leptospermum rotundifolium Leptospermum trinervium Leucopogon lanceolata Leucopogon attenuatus Lomandra obliqua Lomandra filiformis Mirbelia rubiifolia Lomandra longifolia Mitrasacme polymorpha Lomatia ilicifolia Monotoca scoparia Patersonia glabrata Olax stricta Patersonia longifolia Persoonia mollis Patersonia sericea Philotheca scabra ssp. latifolia Persoonia levis Pimelea linifolia Persoonia sp. Platysace lanceolata Petrophile sp. Pomaderris andromedifolia Phyllota phylicoides Poranthera microphylla Platylobium formosum ? Rhytidosporum procumbens Pomaderris ? ferruginea Schoenus apogon Pomaderris sp. Sphaeorolbium minus Pomax umbellatum Sphaerolobium vimeneum Pultenaea capitellata Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Simpliglottis chlorantha Stackhousia viminea Stylidium graminifolium Styphelia ? angustifolia Thelymitra carnea Thelymitra ixioides Viola hederacea Xanthorrhoea concava
Bird List Pallid Cuckoo Fan-tailed Cuckoo Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Superb Lyrebird Grey Fantail Grey Shrike-thrush Superb Fairy-wren Rockwarbler Striated Thornbill White-throated Treecreeper Spotted Pardalote Yellow-faced Honeyeater Grey Butcherbird Pied Currawong Satin Bowerbird Australian Raven
Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region