#sullivan rock

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#3319 - Aonychus sp.

The lesser of two weevils seen that day. The genus is distinguished by the lack of tarsal claws, is found across much of Australia, and is in the tribe Erirhinini, but that's the limit of the info I have on them.

Jarrah woodland near Sullivan Rock, WA

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#3340 - Phyllanthus calycinus - False Boronia

AKA Snowdrop Spurge.

A small shrub in the family Phyllanthaceae, growing to 1.2 m, usually in sandy soils. Found in Western Australia and South Australia. I don't know why anybody would mistake it for a Boronia.

Sullivan Rock nr. Jarrahdale, WA

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#3338 - Lobelia rhombifolia - Tufted Lobelia

A small annual from Southern Australia, growing in sandy soils over laterite, limestone or granite. In this case, over granite.

Sullivan Rock nr. Jarrahdale, WA.

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#3330 - Gastrolobium villosum - Crinkle-leaved Poison

One of the highly poisonous peas endemic to SW Australia, that somehow extract enough fluorine from our ancient soils to kill.

Grows in gravelly clay or loam, laterite, granite, mostly along the Darling Escarpment. Probably the granite outcrops studding the escarpment like the plums in a pudding provide the fluorine.

Eucalyptus woodland nr. Sullivan Rock

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#3342 - Siphula sp. - Water Lichens

Probably Siphula coriacea, which is widespread in SW Australia.

Growing in moss beds on Sullivan Rock.

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#3336 - Lasiopetalum glutinosum

A hairy shrub with sticky flowers, although this is an unusual flower as it has 6 pink calyx lobes instead of the usual 5. There are two subspecies, both endemic to the regions surrounding Perth, but I'm not entirely sure which this one is.

Woodland nr. Sullivan Rock, WA

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#3140 - Fossombronia sp. - Frillworts

On granite-derived soil near the Sullivan Rock inselberg near Jarrahdale.

A large genus of liverworts with ruffled thalli and cosmopolitan distribution.

The family was previously known as the Codoniaceae, but  Codonia turned out to be a synonym of Fossombronia.

Sullivan Rock, Western Australia

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#2996 - Lichenomphalia sp.

This one was from October rather than May, so finding a mushroom at all was a bit surprising, but this was growing at the bottom of Sullivan Rock so it was probably getting any condensation that theoretically formed on the granite.

Lichenomphalia is a basidiolichen and a gilled mushroom - the inconspicuous lichenized thalli have scattered, nearly microscopic green balls or small flakes containing single-celled green Coccomyxa algae.

Sullivan Rock, E. of Jarrahdale, WA