Stylidium sect. Repentes

Repentes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Stylidiaceae
Genus: Stylidium
Subgenus: Tolypangium
Section: Repentes
Mildbr.
Species

Stylidium diplectroglossum
Stylidium flagellum
Stylidium perula
Stylidium pingrupense
Stylidium pseudosacculatum
Stylidium repens
Stylidium sacculatum
Stylidium thylax

Repentes is a section in the subgenus Tolypangium (genus Stylidium). Repentes is a group of creeping triggerplants known as the locket triggerplants, related to subgenus Nitrangium section Appressae. They possess adpressed stem leaves bearing a small basal spur and uni-flowered inflorescences. Because section Repentes morphologically resembles the other creeping triggerplants in section Appressae, Allen Lowrie et al. (1999) proposed all species in this section be moved to section Appressae and Repentes be placed into synonymy. Juliet Wege (2006), however, argued that these species are morphologically distinct from those in section Appressae, citing trichome and column cunabulum structure as distinctions that separate the sections.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Lowrie, A., Burbidge, A.H., and Kenneally, K.F. (1999). A taxonomic revision of the creeping triggerplants (Stylidiaceae: Stylidium sect. Appressae) from southern Australia. Nuytsia, 13(1): 89-157.
  2. ↑ Wege, J.A. (2006). Taxonomic notes on the locket trigger plants from Stylidium subgenus Tolypangium section Repentes. Nuytsia, 16(1): 207-220.


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