#australind

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#1479 - Melaleuca viminea - Mohan

With bonus mantid. 

A Honey-myrtle endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, variable in size and form from a densely branched, small shrub to a small tree. It grows in sandy and clayey soils near watercourses, winter-wet depressions, rocky coastal areas, and flats. This one was growing in a waterside park, a few centimeters above the waterline at Australind, south of Perth, so probably counts as all of the above.

It has become naturalised in parts of southern Victoria.

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#1804 - Elephantodeta sp. - Mystery Humpbacked Katydid

A known but as yet undescribed katydid species, found in inland Western Australia. Which makes me finding this one doubly mysterious, since it was dead on a concrete slab in Australind, on the SW coast - well outside its known range.