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Stylidium tenerum Spreng.
Family Stylidiaceae
Common name: Swamp Trigger Plant

Stylidium tenerum Spreng. APNI*

Synonyms: Stylidium uliginosum auct. non Sw. ex Willd. APNI*

Description: Small, slender, erect annual herb with leaves in a basal rosette.

Leaves oblong, ovate to ± circular, 4–10 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, margins entire, lamina glabrous.

Scapes 1–several, simple or branched, glandular-hairy, 5–16 cm high. Spikes sparsely glandular-hairy; flowers sessile in the forks, and along the branches, each in the axil of a minute bract. Sepals 2–3 mm long. Corolla c. 3.5 mm long; white with reddish dots at the base of the petals; tube longer than sepals; lobes 6–7 mm long, spreading, unequal, 2 longer and notched. Column 2–3 times as long as the petals, anthers pale. Ovary linear, 4–6 mm long, glandular-hairy.

Capsule linear, 4–6 mm long; seeds brown and shining.


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Flowering: winter–spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in swampy areas, north from Tweed Heads.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
AVH map***

Text by L. C. Stanberg
Taxon concept: A.R. Bean (2000)


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