daveboyle's Identifications
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Chatham Redcoat Damselfly (Xanthocnemis tuanuii)Observer
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Chatham Islands, Rekohu (Chatham Island), Taia Peninsula, Lake Makuku (south-western shoreline) (Google, OSM)Description
Abundant on lake margin, Patrolling sections of flooded lake shore line in open areas of oioi (Apodasmia similis) and Machaerina arthrophylla.
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Caladenia variegataObserver
pjd1Description
Locally common - usually as solitary or paired plants (very rarely more) and often in close association with Caladenia chlorostyla. Flower colours variable range from pink through lavender to pinkish-white.
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Green Column Caladenia (Caladenia chlorostyla)Observer
pjd1Place
Chatham Islands, Rekohu (Chatham Island), Southern Tablelands, Southern Covenant, Sweetwater to Bike Track (Google, OSM)Description
Abundant. Colonial. Often growing with Caladenia variegata, in tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) leaf litter under a dense canopy of tarahinau and mataira (Myrsine chathamica).
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Caladenia variegataObserver
pjd1Description
Common - often associated with Caladenia chlorostyla. Plants often solitary, rarely more than three seen together.
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Green Column Caladenia (Caladenia chlorostyla)Observer
pjd1Place
Chatham Islands, Rekohu (Chatham Island), Southern Tablelands, Southern Covenant, Rakeinui track (Google, OSM)Description
Common amongst tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) leaf litter within dense tarahinau / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest. Colonial, specimens often with two flowers per stem.
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Caladenia variegataObserver
pjd1Description
Locally common in small colonies of 3-8 plants. Specimens on forest floor in drifts of leaf litter under a dense canopy of tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum), mataira (Myrsine chathamica), hikoa karamu (Coprosma chathamica) and wheki ponga (Dicksonia fibrosa).
Flower pale pink (not captured well by camera). Stem green in this example densely eglandular-glandular hairy.
Often found growing with Caladenia chlorostyla.
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Dandelions (Genus Taraxacum)Observer
pjd1Description
Common in lawn. Leaves hamate. Out ray florets with dark red apices. Involucral bracts, glabrous - outer dark green, inner glaucous. Stigma covered in pollen.
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Swamp Mapou (Myrsine coxii)Observer
pjd1Description
Common along ecotone between tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest and Dracophyllum scoparium / Sporadanthus traversii with hangatere (Macrolearia semidentata) bog.
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Swamp Mapou (Myrsine coxii)Observer
pjd1Description
Part of understorey in open tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest above lake.
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Dandelions (Genus Taraxacum)Observer
pjd1Place
Chatham Islands, Rekohu (Chatham Island), Waiteki / Waitangi, Normal Kirk Memorial Park (Google, OSM)Description
Cultivated from live plants sampled on 20 August 2022 from Normal Kirk Memorial Gardens.
First flowering of plant. Leaves dark green with midribs dark red near base fading to mottled pink / green in upper portion of leaves. Leaves weakly dimorphic, adaxially sparsely hairy. Capitula with glaucous involucral bracts, outer bracts ciliate. Capitula florets producing little pollen. 2n = 24.
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Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)Observer
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Chatham Islands, Rekohu (Chatham Island), Wharekauri Farm Station, Tokotoko o Utangaroa (Cape Young) (Google, OSM)Description
Poor quality image (camera not right for birds). Noted on eroded portion of sheep track leading to summit of Cape Young.
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Chathams Skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare)Observer
christopherstephensDescription
It's just one, and best I got, but still counts! Moderately pleased to spot one, though not so much with the bleh photo.
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