<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 313/2017 Title: The Orchid Guardian ProjectApplicant: Julian Pitcher The Orchid Guardian project is about inspiring, educating and utilising Orchid enthusiasts to stabilise wild populations of Orchids. This will be achieved by producing various unique high impact films to be used on websites, social media and at community meetings […]
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 312/2016 Title: Tasmanian Orchid Conservation into the FutureApplicant: Dr Nigel SwartsInstitution: Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens This project aims to establish a long-term orchid conservation and research program at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG). This project will see a coordinated approach to the implementation of the recently published Tasmanian Threatened
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 310/2016 Title: The orchid-fungus symbiotic partnership: is there a role for a third partner – mycovirus?Applicant: Dr Steve WylieInstitution: School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Western Australia All Australian terrestrial orchids are symbionts to a greater or lesser degree. They require association with appropriate fungal species to germinate,
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 310/2016 Title: Investigations of the mycorrhizal associations of Australian Bulbophyllum orchids.Applicants: Jed Calvert & John D.W. DearnaleyInstitution: Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland. This study was aimed at elucidating aspects of the mycorrhizal associations of Australian Bulbophyllum orchids, of which little is currently known. The first component of the project, to
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 309/2016 Title: Disentangling evolutionary relationships in the Thelymitra pauciflora/nuda species complex using next-generation sequencing.Applicant: Dr Lars NauheimerInstitution: Australian Tropical Herbarium and James Cook University, Queensland. The sun orchids (Thelymitra) comprise over 118 species with several threatened species and with a centre of diversity in Australia. Despite considerable taxonomic work over the past
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 308/2016 Title: Pollination biology of Diuris: testing for Batesian mimicry in Southwestern Australia.Applicant: Daniela ScaccabarozziInstitution: Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University; Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Western Australia. Batesian floral mimicry has been suggested in some orchids which appear to imitate flowers of sympatric rewarding species in
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 307/2016 Title: Growing Diuris fragrantissima (Sunshine Diuris) in the thousands to establish new populations.Applicant: Karen LesterInstitution: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Diuris fragrantissima is an endangered grassland orchid with a single small wild population. The successful establishment of new D. fragrantissima populations, at secure sites, is a
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 306/2016 Title: Assessing a metabarcoding protocol for the recovery of Tulasnella spp. associated with the highly endangered orchid Diuris fragrantissima.Applicants: Dr Eleonora Egidi and Dr Ashley FranksInstitution: Department of Physiology Anatomy and Microbiology, School of Life. La Trobe University Bundoora, Victoria. Diuris fragrantissima, commonly known as Sunshine Diuris, is an orchid species
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 305/2016 Title: Global listing of Australian orchids to sustain and enhance conservation and global funding opportunities for conservation.Applicant: Dr Nigel SwartsInstitution: Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Queens Domain, Hobart Tasmania The conservation status of plants and animals in one of the most widely used indicators for assessing the condition of
<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 303/2015 Pollination, hybridization and breeding systems in the midge orchids (Corunastylis) of the Blue Mountains, NSW.Applicant: Professor Peter BernhardtInstitution: Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Herbarium of New South Wales. Midge orchids (Corunastylis species) are usually pollinated by tiny chloropoid flies. Several Corunastylis species are strongly scented but it is