Photography and text by Eric Scanlen
Nematoceras “Pollok”, a recent find from private bush near Pollok, growing on completely shaded and dripping sandstone cliffs at the heads of gullies. They have very long stems in the mossy muck on the sandstone ledges and a solitary rounded leaf. Two colonies have been found, the other near Kohekohe some 5km distant from the Pollok lot. Early flowering for this the smallest of the N. rivularis agg. plant, in August/September. Photographed on 10/8/04. I have shots with more tepals and the leaf showing but unscanned at the moment.
Both of these plants have been endorsed by Ian St George and Bruce Irwin, our leading orchid authorities.
We are not supposed to have spider orchids. They were the Corybas alliance which now are commonly known as silver backs. Aussies have spectacular but unrelated spider orchids or Arachnorchis species, up until recently called Caladenia. These have very long tepals, as I was explaining to Michael Pratt who is also calling ours spider orchids. Our silver backs are all purplish red with varying amounts of green except for the rare alba forms so I’ve been staying off them for analglyph reasons. Also, as I explained earlier, there are masses of them and audiences get bored with them. I put about three in a slide show.
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Nematoceras “Pollok”
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Stereoscopic photography and text: Eric Scanlen
anaglyph preparation: Mathew Reeves (USA)