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Life in the pond: Leibleinia
Bob Baldock reports on algae found in the Botanic Gardens recycle-ponds: this time on a spiral blue-green alga that entwines a green alga!
Leibleiena epiphytica on Oedogonium sp.
Leibleinia epiphytica (arrowed in photograph) is a cosmopolitan, extremely thin, thread-like photosynthetic bacterium (Cyanophyte, or blue-green alga) that wraps itself around threads of other algae. Here it has embraced the common green alga, Oedogonium. Both were found in the small rafts of algae floating in recycle ponds.
Amazing what you find under the microscope!
Open House Adelaide 2014
The State Herbarium will be open to the public on 3 and 4 May 2014 during Open House Adelaide as part of the About Time: South Australia’s History Festival.
The heritage-listed 1909 Tram Barn A was once part of a complex housing the Adelaide tram fleet. Now the State Herbarium, it houses over one million plant specimens instead. See some of the first plants collected in the State on Matthew Flinders‘ voyage and learn how all these dried specimens are critical to the effective preservation of living plants.
Read more about Tram Barn A (1.15mb pdf) and the over one million plant specimens (561kb pdf) in booklets published by State Herbarium staff.
Guided walking tours will be available on both 3 and 4 May at 11am and 1pm.
Bookings are essential.
More Algae Revealed fact-sheets online
Halopeltis verrucosa
Algae Revealed is a collection of fact-sheets on marine algae of southern Australia, compiled by Hon. Research Associate Bob Baldock.
Recently, 16 new or up-dated fact-sheets were published on the State Herbarium’s eFloraSA web-site.
To access the over 600 Algae Revealed fact-sheets, go to www.flora.sa.gov.au/algae_revealed/index.shtml.
New Journal article, Apr. 2014
Drosera murfetii in the Hartz Mountains, Tas.
Yesterday, 1 Apr. 2014, the second paper of Vol. 27 (2014) was published in the online edition of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
Drosera murfetii (Droseraceae), a new species from Tasmania, Australia (2.8MB)
by A. Lowrie & J.G. Conran
describes the “giant alpine sundew”, a new species of Drosera from southern Tasmania, related to Drosera arcturi.
To access content of all volumes of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens since 1976, please visit the journal’s web-site at flora.sa.gov.au/jabg.
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