Stylidium nymphaeum

Stylidium nymphaeum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Stylidiaceae
Genus: Stylidium
Species: S. nymphaeum
Binomial name
Stylidium nymphaeum
Wege

Stylidium nymphaeum is a climbing triggerplant found along the southern coast of Southwest Australia. The species uses the curved tips of its leaves to clamber over nearby plants, attaining a height between 1.4 to 2.5 metres. These leaves are long and slender, between 15 to 75 millimetres in length and 0.8 to 2 millimetres in width, are hairless, and have an entire margin. The scape is also hairless. The flowers are pink to purple, appearing from December or January to May.[1]

The species is found on sandy clay or peaty sands in seasonally wet, low lying areas, and alongside creeks, in dense scrub.[1]

S. nymphaeum was described in 2010 by Juliet Wege, based on material collected by Robert Brown and illustrated by Ferdinand Bauer. Brown obtained several specimens at King George Sound that he eventually used for the type collection conceived as Stylidium scandens, though his notes made prior to that species first description identify the larger specimens he obtained at Lake Powell.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Stylidium nymphaeum' Wege". FloraBase. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia.
  2. ↑ Nuytsia 20:104-107, Figs 2e-g, 7 (2010) Stylidium miscellany 1: typifications and new taxa from south-west Western Australia


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