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First formally described as Astroloma acervatum in 2013 by Australian botanists Michael Clyde Hislop and Annette Jane Gratton Wilson. The specific epithet means “mounded” or “heaped”.

Foxes Lair, Narrogin.

It grows in woods and shrubland in a variety of soils over laterite and granite from Eneabba to Wagin, on the Darling Range and the nearby coastal plain.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin.

’celastrifolia’ means ’Celastrus-leaved’, a completely unrelated plant.

Grows in gravelly laterite and granite soils in various ecoregions of the SW.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin, WA

A shrub, up to 50cm, growing on laterite in surpisingly patchy distribution in parts of SW Australia. It’s not as though laterite is rare over here. Just look at the large boulder behind the plant.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin.

Otherwise, i don’t have much to say about it.

Foxes Lair, Narrogin - indeed, growing over laterite.

I thought they'd wiped themselves out. Rather more powerful then their classmates too

Probably one of the factors in why I got so few insect species on the Jan trip - the weather was very odd

Isopeda is found in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and the Philippines, and was first circumscribed by German arachnologist and entomologist Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.

Dryandra Woodlands NP, Western Australia

The antennae of the male have very long, fine, nearly invisible pectination pairs (quad-pectinate) per segment.

Dryandra Woodlands NP

The genus is named after the stoic philosopher, Panaetius of Rhodes, but I don’t know why - possibly because it tolerates a wide range of soils and conditions?

Endemic to the SW.

Yilliminning Rock, E. of Narrogin

However, in 1867 George Bentham moved it to Podolepsis, and some authorities consider that the current ID. But in 2021 it got moved back to Panaetia, after Australian botanist Jeffrey Jeanes, and that’s the name the WA Herbarium is sticking with.

The Climacteridae family is found in Australia and Papua, but despite resembling the Certhiid treecreepers of the Northern Hemisphere, are not closely related.

Yilliminning Rock, E. of Narrogin, Western Australia

Australasian treecreepers nest in tree hollows, and can be territorial, but some species recruit up to three helpers - usually older male offspring - to help construct the nest, feed the incubating female, and rear their younger siblings.