Probably myrtle rust but the uploaded image is just 180 x 240 pixels and far too small to see detail

NAME
Trachypepla festiva Philpott

PARENT
Trachypepla

BIOSTATUS
Indigenous, present in the wild (2021)

HABITAT
Terrestrial

@robcruickshank photo lost?

https://inaturalist.nz/people/pjd1
Can you assist with Genus please

I think it might be Usnea and have seen something similar in the South Island mountains (e.g. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/33873721) but am still looking into the genus so not confident at this stage (hence why I added your obs as a favourite - so I can see what others think).

Thanks Melissa, I will work through Usnea options in Galloways publications.
Notably the growths are ringed indicating discontinuous medulla perhaps.

Thanks Allison

@allison89 - I have been wondering about how to easily distinguish U. acromelana from U. ciliata (in the field). Is it mainly down to whether they are fertile (or not)?

I recently saw what I thought was U. acromelana (https://inaturalist.nz/observations/100839921), but some individuals in the same spot were fertile, so I was wondering if that was U. ciliata? https://inaturalist.nz/observations/100839924

Do both species often grow together?

@frederic_ducarme please

probably an immature plant of G. corymbifera

@tonyrebelo 3 different bushes posted on iNat today, from the same garden as previously posted L. stellare and L. strobilinum

Ah Celmisia makes more sense. Lagenophora didn't quite sit right with me but I couldn't think of what other daisy it could be! Sorry about that.

See https://inaturalist.nz/observations/19646137 and https://inaturalist.nz/observations/38251275

Unusual labellum but looks like C. aff. chlorostyla otherwise.

Carlos identified this as C. "Red stem". We found a few but they were not common. There was another observation that you've also called aff chlorostyla.
They were easily distinguished from chlorostyla s.s. by the dark red, hairy flower spike, the dark glandular surface on the outside of the sepals/petals, and the red at the base of the calli.

@haydenj Over the years a number of tag names have been applied to Caladenia that have obvious affinities with C. chlorostyla s.s. These tag names include Caladenia "green stem" and C. "red stem". The issue I have with this is that in many colonies there are a mixture of red stemmed and green stemmed plants, which makes such tag names totally confusing. As you note, C. chlorostyla s.s. is easily distinguished by its green stem and green back to the dorsal sepal. In addition, the tepals are greenish-white, without any hint of red coloration on the plant other than inside the flower. On the other hand, those called C. aff. chlorostyla can have red or green stems and red colouring in the tepals and on the dorsal sepal. The features these entities have in common with C. chlorostyla are flower shape, particularly the labellum, and the distinctive divergent bract on the scape, which no other NZ Caladenia species has. In the north of New Zealand there appears to be a slight gap between the flowering times of the two forms, which may or my not indicate speciation. Until DNA analysis is carried out we are not going to know for sure what we are dealing with and whether the differences extend to species level.

You could crop this image quite a bit and save space.

Thanks @skipperdogman

Thanks @steve_kerr

Congratulations!! I am yet to find the species but I will try harder...!

Well done.

Thank you, it was quite exciting! I wish you luck in your search for this species

I think it is Raoulia subsericea. The conspicuous leafy buds are an abnormal phytopathological condition

fairly sure it is this which is often confused with E. komorovianum

more like to be immature plants of G. corymbosa

Looks like a C. sessiliflora hybrid

seems to have hairy capsules though not well resolved in photos

no, could be C. petriei

@robcruickshank photo lost?

@robcruickshank photo lost?

Lots of different ones there.

I suspect that I didn't read the description when adding my ID! So perhaps there really is Genus Parmella in there (I don't know). So have withdrawn my coarse ID.

@allison89 the description says your team ID'd this, did he remember the genus correctly :-)

Dicranopteris caudata in my books. It seems pretty clearly to be a distinct species from Dicranopteris linearis s.s.

That's what I was thinking but I couldn't find the name on here.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/1547416

I was going off Tom May's comment at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24556621, until more work is done

So in other words he's in effect saying the same and adding we might as well use virescens for the moment even though it's most likely not that.

Early Xmas present? Aren't Olympus TGxyz wonderful :-)

Late Mother’s Day/ early bday present! I’m so thrilled. Unfortunately my snorkel was leaking so I ended up swallowing half the marine reserve and making myself sick, so my early Xmas present was a fancy new snorkel! I can’t wait to learn how to use it properly.

I've never tried snorkeling, will have to get one, any pointers ? :-)

Oh wow, you are going to love it! It’s another world under there!
Snorkels are pretty basic. You can’t go too wrong. My one was old and the valve at the bottom leaked so I couldn’t clear it. Any dive shop can give you pointers. Do you have friends you can go with? I’ve taught a couple of people to snorkel - happy to take you if you want :) Once you get over the strangeness of breathing normally with your face under the water it is a piece of cake.

@luca_dt - I was so excited I took it out the day after I got it before I even read the manual, so hopefully the images will improve as I learn the best ways to use it! I’m looking forward to having a summer in the water

I don't know the improvements with the TG6, but with the TG3 and 5, to me, the best feature is the super macro closeups. Waterproof, and in-camera focus-stacking are great features too. Bought the TG3 years ago when we'd see the same friendly red cod just off the beach when swimming in Princess Bay ... never did see them again once I got an underwater camera!

grossum?

Dicksonia?

Do you have an image of the underside of a frond?