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Peter Riley Jan 27, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/victoria-grampians-fires-endangered-globe-pea-plant-rescue

https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/-/media/project/pv/main/parks/documents/visitor-guides-and-publications/grampians/grampians-national-park_floraguide.pdf?

“Ball Pod”
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/138642-Sphaerolobium

Globe Peas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaerolobium_acanthos

#BloomScrolling #environment #Flora #Gariwerd #GlobePeas #revegetation #rewilding

‘Rare and threatened’: the bid to save Grampian flowers after fire disasters

Royal Botanic Gardens scientists are heading to the Victorian national park in search of plant survivors amid the charred landscape

The Guardian

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Peter Riley

#Hakea belongs to the ancient plant family #Proteaceae, which split into two subfamilies, #Grevilleoideae in #Australia and #Proteoideae in #southafrica before the separation of the #Gondwanaland continent around 140 million years ago.

*Image by Corynocarpus CC BY-SA 4.0

Proteaceae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteaceae

Grevilleoideae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevilleoideae

Proteoideae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteoideae

Gondwana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana

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Proteaceae - Wikipedia

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moringa Jan 27, 2025

@peterjriley2024

Are you sure about this? The taxonomy used on inaturalist which is fairly up to date doesn't match this. There are more subfamilies now and the split between Australian and South African species is mostly at the tribe level.