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Newsletter 161 July 2016

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EXCURSION REPORT - JUNE 2016. GREAT DIVIDING RANGE / STANNARY HILLS...... 1

SPECIES LIST...... 3 EEXCURSION RREPORT -- JJUNE 2016.2016. GGREAT FERNS...... 3 DDIVIDING RRANGE // SSTANNARY HHILLS CONIFERS...... 3 Stuart Worboys MONOCOTS...... 3 Sunday 19 July saw the biggest SGAP gathering in my time with the organisation. Members ...... 3 from Cairns, Tablelands, and Townsville met in Herberton on a grey and drizzly Tablelands morning. We guessed 30 people met at the Petford Road turnoff, threatening to block the WHAT'S HAPPENING...... 4 road with their massed four wheel drives.

CAIRNS BRANCH ...... 4 The group trundled off to the Great Dividing Range Range powerline corridor, with a TABLELANDS BRANCH....4 splinter group heading to Stannary Hills proper. On the Range we found flowers more typical of a temperate heathland - Velleia pubescens, speciosa, Cryptandra debilis and TOWNSVILLE BRANCH....4 tiny donkey orchids, Diuris oporina.

After lunch at the historic Watsonville Cemetery, Peter Radke lead us to a site where we could see all of the Stannary Hills iconic species - glossadenia, atrata, Eucalyptus pachycalyx, longipedunculata, and the unique but uncharismatic Acacia purpureapetala.

Thanks to everyone for making this a fun, unwieldy, and fascinating day.

Photos, clockwise from top left:

• Stannary Hills locals welcome visitors with open arms.

• Low cloud over the Great Dividing Range powerline corridor.

• The iconic, and slightly rainsoaked, Stannary Hills species, Acacia purpureapetala, 's only native purple wattle.

• Diuris oporina, Herberton Railway Line (Photo by Chris Jaminon).

• Diuris oporina, Mt Emerald (Photo by Chris Jaminon).

• Diuris oporina, Baal Gammon (Photo by Chris Jaminon).

• plurinervia.

• Phyllanthus dallachyanus subsp. Irvinebank (P.I.Forster PIF14675)

ASTERACEAE Species List *Ageratum conyzoides Corymbia citriodora (lemon- scented gum) Compiled by everyone! Coronidium newcastlianum (white paper daisy) Eucalyptus atrata Cyanthilium cinereum Eucalyptus cloeziana (Gympie Ferns Xerochrysum bracteatum (yellow messmate) everlasting) Eucalyptus pachycalyx (pumpkin DENNSTAEDTIACEAE gum) Pteridium esculentum (bracken) BIGNONIACEAE Eucalyptus tereticornis (forest red Pandorea linearis PTERIDACEAE gum) Cheilanthes cordata CARYOPHYLLACEAE suaveolens Cheilanthes tenuifolia Wahlenbergia (bluebells) glomulifera (Turpentine)

CASUARINACEAE Conifers Conifers inophloia cernua CUPRESSACEAE Allocasuarina torulosa Sauorpus elachophyllus Callitris intratropica (cypress-pine) CELASTRACEAE PICRODENDRACEAE Stackhousia intermedia Petalostigma banksii Monocots Petalostigma pubecens (quinine bush) ASPARAGACEAE Acacia aulacocarpa Thysanotus (fringe lily) PITTOSPORACEAE Acacia galioides Bursaria cf. incana BORYACEAE Acacia humifusa Borya septentrionalis Acacia leptoloba POLYGALACEAE Acacia longipedunculata Polygala paniculata HAEMODORACEAE Acacia purpureapetala Haemodorum coccineum Acacia whitei (bloodroot) Acacia wickhamii subsp. cassitera (bushman's HEMEROCALLIDACEAE (tabletop wattle) clothespeg) Tricoryne anceps Chamaecrista rotundifolia (Wynn Grevillea glossadenia Cassia) ORCHIDACEAE Chorizema parviflorum (Lisa's pea) Diuris oporina Hakea plurinervia Corymbia leichhardtii (yellowjacket) POACEAE falcata Flemingia parviflora Aristida Gastrolobium grandiflorum (poison RHAMNACEAE *Melinis minutiflora pea) Alphitonia pomaderroides Mnesithea rottboelioides Gompholobium nitidum Cryptandra debilis Panicum effusum Hovea nana Themeda triandra (kangaroo grass) Indigofera bancroftii Coelospermum reticulatum XANTHORRHOEACEAE Indigofera pratensis johnsonii (grass tree) Jacksonia thesioides Mirbelia speciosa subsp. ringrosei sericea

Eudicots *Stylosanthes scabra STYLIDIACEAE Tephrosia filipes Stylidium graminifolium (trigger ) Brunoniella acaulis GOODENIACEAE adscendens Velleia pubescens

APIACEAE HYPERICACEAE Platysace valida Hypericum gramineum

SGAP Cairns Branch Newsletter 3 WWHAT''S HHAPPENING

Cairns Branch Tablelands Branch Townsville Branch th Meetings and excursions on the Meetings on the 4 Wednesday Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of rd 3 Sunday of the month. of the month. Excursion the the month, February to following Sunday. Any queries, November, in Annandale 17 July 2016 – 12 noon. Emerald please contact Chris Jaminon on Community Centre at 8pm, and Creek Falls. How to get there: 4091 4565 or email holds excursions the following Head west from Cairns towards [email protected] Sunday. Mareeba. About 5 km before 11 September 2016 - Burra Mareeba turn left onto Tinaroo Range. The most spectacular Creek Road. Follow this for 2.8 array of wildflowers in north km, turn left onto Cobra Road. can be found in thr Continue along this road - it Burra Range, west of Townsville. changes name to Emerald Falls Contact John Elliott (jw- Road and takes you to your [email protected] ) for more destination. details on this excursion.

August 2016 – To be confirmed. See www.sgaptownsville.org.au/ September 2016 – Cattana for more information. Wetlands, Smithfield 7-9 October 2016 - Yabba Capricorn - see , p 4 & 5 for details. October 2016 – Jumrun Nature Walk, Kuranda.

SGAP CAIRNS BRANCH 2016 COMMITTEE President: Tony Roberts ([email protected]) Vice President: Pauline Lawie Secretary: Coralie Stuart Treasurer: Val Carnie Newsletter: Stuart Worboys ([email protected]) Webmaster: Tony Roberts

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