Archive for April, 2009

Lepironia articulata

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Description
A tall slender rush with a dark green/grey cylindrical stem. It has a creeping ryyzome and a small single brown oval shaped seed pod near the spike end.

Photos - Dave Wilson
Distribution
Taiwan, Magagascar, Fiji, in Australia it occurs in the NT, Qld and WA.
Habit
In the NT it grows in shallow water margins […]

Mariana’s Hardyhead

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

On 4 April 09 the 4 x 2 x 2 photographic aquarium was set up to photograph Mariana’s Hardyhead. I am not quite sure where the Wildlife Park collected them but it was probably the upper South Alligator River or the East Alligator River in the top end of the Northern Territory. […]