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Stylidium
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| Tasmania
has five native species of Stylidium. These are
characterised by the trigger plant habit- where the flowers
have the style and stamens fused together to form a column
that springs across the flower when its bottom is tickled.
Two species are perennial rosette plants with numerous
leaves. These are the very widespread and common, S.
graminifolium, which has leaves less than 3mm wide and
S. armeria which is common in dry places and has
leaves more than 3mm wide. One form of S. armeria
has short thick flowering stalks and grows on rocks in the
salt spray zone of the west, south and far south-eastern
coasts. The other three species are small ephemeral plants
with few leaves. n.b. Stylidium inundatuam is
probably not native to Tasmania (specimens previously
identified as such were probably another of the ephemeral
species). |
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University of Tasmania
