FloraSearch
Flora Survey and Botanical Specialists -
Native and exotic flora, pollination biology and photography
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SERVICES
FloraSearch provides a comprehensive range of botanical services:
Flora Surveys for Environmental Impact Statements and Species Impact Statements including - Plant species listing - comprehensive lists of native and introduced flora species on subject sites. Vegetation community identification and description - community characteristics determined by quadrat sampling. Vegetation community mapping - by hand held GPS and/or Air Photo Interpretation (API). Targeted searches for threatened species and communities with mapping of locations and boundaries by GPS. Conducting 7 Part Tests for threatened species and communities that occur, or may potentially occur on the study area. Assessment of vegetation condition. Documentation of weed occurrence and presence of declared Noxious Weed species. Rehabilitation Monitoring - Quantitative assessment of survival in native species plantings. Qualitative assessment of plant health in native species plantings. Post-fire Regeneration Monitoring - Pre-hazard reduction burning baseline data on the size and reproductive status of selected fire sensitive and fire dependent native plant species. Monitoring of post-burn recovery of marked plants of fire sensitive and fire dependent plant species. Regional Threatened Species and Community Searches - Determination of the regional distribution and abundance of species or communities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Conservation Act 1999, that may be potentially affected by a development project, in order to assess the likely regional impact of the project on the species or community. Plant Pollination Biology - FloraSearch has unique commercial expertise in plant pollination biology. Dr Colin Bower is an acknowledged expert on pollination of Australian native orchids and has conducted original research on pollination of sexually deceptive species in the tribes Drakaeinae and Caladeniinae. He has also conducted the first Australian, and possibly the first international, project to identify the pollinators of a threatened plant species and determine their ecological requirements in order to design conservation plans for the orchid. FloraPhoto Quality high resolution digital photos of Australian native and introduced plant species. Images of the behaviour of thynnine wasp pollinators on Australian sexually deceptive orchids. All images on this site are subject to copyright. Rights to use images may be purchased; the cost varying according to image size. Plant Identification Identification of plant samples, provided they have the necessary key diagnostic features (i.e. specimens should comprise the whole plant, including roots, for herbs and grasses, and foliage plus flowers and/or fruits for shrubs and trees). |
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FloraSearch is unique in its ability to provide expertise in pollination biology as a commercial service. The
above images show the endangered Jervis Bay Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum affine) and its main pollinator, the Flower Wasp, Ariphron sp.
Lepidium aschersonii -Spiny Peppercress
Diuris tricolor - Tricolor Diuris
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FloraSearch has conducted surveys of the distribution and abundance of the above three threatened species in Central Western NSW to clarify the regional impact of
development projects on them.