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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

Ref's:

• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024)
 Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria .

Mobile devices (phones and tablets) app.:  
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-mobile-app/  
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/shop/rainforest-plants-of-australia-2-0-mobile-app/

Computer (desktops and laptops) software:  
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-desktop-app/  
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/publications/  

• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Smilax
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Smilax~glyciphylla

All viewed: 2025 June 9th .
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Smilax glyciphylla

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

Ref':

• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024)  
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria .

Mobile devices (phones and tablets) app.:
 → https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-mobile-app/
 → https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/shop/rainforest-plants-of-australia-2-0-mobile-app/

Computer (desktops and laptops) software:  
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-desktop-app/  
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/publications/  

Viewed: 2025 June 89h .

Gynochthodes jasminoides

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

8 Jun 2025

@Tapirlord and @MichaelMulvaney not difficult to identify, _Cassytha melantha_ – melan- in botany means black, as you would know.

With these, so many shown here, actually, spikes inflorescences with dark coloured hairs, including many flowers buds with many dark coloured hairs (not young growing fruits yet (paler coloured). Incidently the fruits when ripe and then dried go black too, just confusing the botanist.).

Including in details we can only see in aggregate blur here:
with these so many flowers' buds, about to flower en masse.

Each flower covered in characteristic black and dark red hairs over the buds' sepals' green flesh,
including black and dark red hairs, both over each bud's sepals (with some other coloured hairs)
and over each buds' petals.

Combined with the, in proportion to these buds,
thick stems,
thicker stems than all other south-eastern Au _Cassytha_ spp. .
As moderators access, please refer to the full resolution originals of these two photographs.

Closely familiar for me from across south-eastern Au for over 35 years.

Small trees even, eg. 5m tall, can get killed by this biggest species in south-eastern Au – i have observed .

Refer please to:

The Flora of Vic. online VicFlora,
here:
→ https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2160
→ https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/330bbf5f-ab89-4dcd-b081-bfc6a8c0233e

Quotation about this species habit: "
This is the most robust member of the genus, often extensively and densely draping over (and sometimes smothering) shrubs and trees.
" .

The Flora of Au online :
• Genus page, desciption treatment and key to spp. across Au: → https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Cassytha
• This species page: → https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Cassytha%20melantha
• Flora of Au photograph of the budding inflorescences on the stems, as here in this sighting: → https://ala-images.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/store/9/1/7/8/59d42901-fadb-4b95-88d7-c0ca24bd8719/original
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Cassytha melantha

HelenCross wrote:

7 Jun 2025

Thanks Jason - that is a good start!

Unverified Climber or Mistletoe

Jennybach wrote:

3 Jun 2025

Thanks Jason.

Clematis leptophylla