This is a page within Roger and Linda's
Bunhybee Grasslands Web-Site.
Bunhybee Grasslands is a 49 hectare / 120 acre conservation property 35km south of Braidwood, in southern N.S.W.
You can follow through the internal links, or you may find it easier to use
the Site-Map.
Lists of the plant species found on the property have been broken into:
Here's a printable Species List, and here's the spreadsheet used to produce it.
The plants on this page are members of the Orchidaceae Family. Theophrastus (372-286 BCE) described an orchid as "a plant which had a pair of fleshy, subterranean tubers that vaguely resembled human testicles". Following the ancient Greeks, in 1753 the Swede Linnaeus, working Uppsala, adopted the name. There are over 120 genera in Australia, 10 represented among the 18 species of which we've found specimens on Bunhybee.
Our photos of orchids in chronological order are embedded in the main page for Flowers.
There are only 18 identified to date. But anything that helps unload the huge Flowering Plants page on this site is a good thing, and, anyway, many people think that orchids are special.
The botanists continually breed confusion by changing names of genera and species. We've adopted a pragmatic approach, using whichever name we find to be commonly understood. We're gradually building in alternatives, identifying them as aka (also known as), pka (previously known as) and nka (now known as).
Legend:
Bold Font: Species that are threatened (Vulnerable or Endangered under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999)
Asterisk (*) and Bold Font: Species that are noxious or environmental weeds.
Cross-Hatch (#): Species added by us to the list originally provided by NCT
FC = Frequency Code / Abundance: Rp/c = rare patches or clumps < 3 patches with < 10 plants per patch, R = Rare at site (< 3 plants), O = Occasional (<5% cover), Ip/c = intermittent patches or clumps, I = intermittent/subdominant, F = frequent/dominant
Photo-Links are to: our own photos (Us), the Australian Plant Image Index (APII), the Far South Coast Conservation Management Network (FSCCMN) Local Plant Database and the International Environmental Weed Foundation (IEWF).
Click on the Specimen Image to see a larger photo.
Scientific Name |
Specimen Image |
Common Name |
Photo Links |
FC |
| # Caladenia fuscata pka Petalochilus fuscatus |
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Dusky Fingers | Us Us Us PlantNet | # Diplodium truncatum equiv. Pterostylis truncata |
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Brittle Greenhood, Little Dumpies | Us Us Us Us PlantNet Banjorah Orchids |
| # Diuris behrii Similar to D. chryseopsis |
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Golden Cowslips | Us Us Plantnet | |
| Diuris chryseopsis Similar to D. behrii |
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(Early) Golden Moth Orchid Small Snake Orchid |
Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us PlantNet | O |
| # Diuris monticola |  |
Mountain Golden Moths | Us Us Orchids Vic PlantNet | |
| # Diuris pardina - red stems (poss. semilunulata – zig-zag stem) |  |
Leopard Orchid | Us Us Plantnet (or Plantnet) | |
| Diuris sulphurea |  |
Tiger Orchid | Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us APII | R/p |
| # Eriochilus cucullatus |  |
Parson's Band | Us Us Us Us Us Derek ANPS'25 PlantNet | |
| # Hymenochilus bicolor (APII name; aka Pterostylis bicolor in PlantNet, also Oligochaetochilus bicolor) |  |
Black-tip Greenhood | Us Us APII PlantNet | |
| # Hymenochilus clivicola, aka Pterostylis c. (ANPS'25 — Mark Clement and Derek Corrigan) |
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Derek ANPS'25 Derek ANPS'25 Derek ANPS'25 Derek ANPS'25 PlantNet | R | |
| Microtis unifolia |  |
Common onion Orchid | Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Plantnet | R |
| Pterostylis falcata (not furcata) |  |
Sickle Greenhood, but poss. Forked Greenhood |
Us Us Us PlantNet (falcata) PlantNet (furcata) | O |
| # Pterostylis pedunculata |  |
Maroonhood (cf. Greenhood) |
Us FSCCMN PlantNet | |
| Spiranthes australis |  |
(Austral) Ladies' Tresses, Chinese Spiranthes | Us Us Us Us Us Us Us APII APII ANPS PlantNet | |
| # Stegostyla moschata nka Caladenia moschata |
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Musky Caps | Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us MB OrchidsNSW | |
| # Stegostyla ustulata |  |
Us Us Us Us PlantNet | ||
| # Thelymitra juncifolia |  |
A (spotted) sun orchid | Us Us | |
| Thelymitra pauciflora |  |
A sun orchid | Us Us Us Us Us Us Us Us MB Derek ANPS 25 Derek ANPS 25 Derek ANPS 25 PlantNet | O |
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Created: 10 January 2026; Last Amended: 11 January 2026
