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#Pilostyles hamiltoniorum! . This is one of my fav West Australian plants! And one of 3 species here. Growing inside the stem of this Daviesia (bitter pea) they grow almost like that of fungus, only its flowers are ever visible produced during the hottest part of the year!

I have moved to bluer skies 💁‍♂️ @lost-in-botany.Bay.social, follow me there as I will no longer be posting on here 🌿

#Podolepis gracilis #Asteraceae, A slender annual herb found commonly throughout the southwest, this was the only one still in flower at the spot I found them in on the slope of Mt Cooke

#Isotoma hypocrateriformis #Campanulaceae, a common species throughout the south west and can be found in a variety of colors, they come up as a single stem of leaves germinating with its sequentially flowered inflorescence! They are also soo reflectively white they look flat

#Calothamnus rupestris #Myrtaceae Growing halfway up Mt Cooke, on a granite slope, living up to its name rupestris (of rocks)

@AusJBotany Thank you! 🌱🎉🙌🏻 looking forward to seeing what’s next to find out!

@lost_in_botany Congratulations @lost_in_botany! Best of luck with all your future research🌱

Check it out the first part of my Pilostyles research is out 😍! @AusJBotany . Applying resource-selection functions to assess host preference in the endemic endoparasite Pilostyles hamiltoniorum (Apodanthaceae) and its principal host Daviesia (Fabaceae) publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24026

@PaulineGrierso1 @BiolSci_UWA @UWAresearch Thank you Pauline ☺️

#Centrolepis aristata #Restionaceae (#Centrolepidaceae) this is a very widespread species where it can easily be found on granite outcrops and wet areas! This little stream running down Mt Cooke was perfect habitat for it!!

Potentially #Siloxerus humifusus or S. filifolius, but looks like I would need to check fruits under a microscope! Both look very similar to each other and grow in the same area! They are such a Strange #Asteraceae!

#Thysanotus tenellus #Asparagaceae The grassy Fringe Lilly! This genus has a variety of growth forms but all have these flowers with three prominent fringed tepals which give them the name. They are only short lived flowers, but most open sequentially!

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@botanicsil Stippling, it’s a lil tedious but it’s relaxing and the results r good

@lost_in_botany Amazing, what's the name of the technique?

Sketchin #Hakea baxteri today!

Todays sketch #Banksia coccinea Leaf #Proteaceae

They’re a common site around granite outcrops, growing in the shallow gritty soils, this can be seen in the images below with a band of them growing back from a large outcropping granite rock! This sub species grows lower to the ground, a habit quite suited to the outcrops.

The dual toned #Verticordia huegelii var. decumbens #Myrtaceae This species is known for the two different coloured flowers, white are younger flowers and as they age they turn red. This is one of my fav species in the genus!

While there are a lot of plants in the #Haloragaceae family that are aquatic herbs #Glischrocaryon aureum is living its best life on land. Australia contains many of the species within the family, both aquatic and terrestrial representatives!

A species of #Lomandra that I can’t ID! Any Lomandra experts out there that could help? Found around Mt Cooke. I think it’s possibly L. integra? 🧐🌱 #Asparagaceae

@D0CT0R_Dave Flowers are so similar to Nuytsia!! Love it

The granite outcrop specialist! #Spiculaea ciliata! Most of the moss beds have dried up, but these tough orchids are flowering up a storm on Mt Cooke! Living off their succulent flower stems! #Orchidaceae