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Some native orchids are becoming less commonly sighted as human activity impacts the environment. SA has 162 endemic orchid species, with more than half under threat from development, weeds, ...

Kobe University researchers found that orchids rely on wood-decaying fungi to germinate, feeding on the carbon from rotting logs. Their seedlings only grow near deadwood, forming precise fungal ...

In March 1802 when Matthew Flinders was circumnavigating Terra Australis on the Investigator his botanist Robert Brown recorded the first sighting of a South Australian orchid. It was a Genoplesium ...