- Stylidium armeria
Taxobox
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image_caption = Illustration of "Stylidium armeria" (syn. "Candollea serrulata") fromFerdinand von Mueller 1892 "Iconography of Candolleaceous Plants"
regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo =Asterales
familia =Stylidiaceae
genus = "Stylidium "
subgenus = "Tolypangium"
sectio = "Lineares"
species = "S. armeria"
binomial = "Stylidium armeria"
binomial_authority = (Labill.) Labill.
synonyms =
*"Candollea armeria" Labill.
*"Candollea serrulata" Labill.
*"Candollea umbellata" Labill.
*"Stylidium armerium" (Labill.)St.-Lag.
*"Stylidium graminifolium" f. "grandiflorum"Mildbr.
*"Stylidium melastachys" R.Br.
*"Stylidium serrulatum" (Labill.)Rich.
*"Stylidium umbellatum" (Labill.) Labill."Stylidium armeria", the thrift-leaved triggerplant, is a species of "
Stylidium " that is native toAustralia . It is an herbaceous perennial that grows from 50 to 100 cm tall. Narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate leaves, about 15-40 mm long, are tufted at the base and are erect to spreading.Inflorescence s produce 25-100 dark pink-magenta flowers that bloom August to February in its native range.Raulings, EJ and Ladiges, PY. (2001). Morphological variation and speciation in "Stylidium graminifolium" (Stylidiaceae), description of "S. montanum" and reinstatement of "S. armeria". "Australian Systematic Botany", 14: 901-935.]Distribution and habitat
"S. armeria" is native to
New South Wales ,Queensland ,South Australia ,Tasmania , and Victoria. Its typical habitat has been reported as "heathland, woodland and open forests of theOtway Ranges through to the snowfields of the Eastern Highlands."Botanical history and taxonomy
On
July 8 ,1805 ,Jacques Labillardière published a species under the name "Candollea armeria". The generic name that Labillardière used, "Candollea" had been previously published as a genus ofPolypodiaceae , so Labillardière corrected the mistake by publishing the species as "S. armeria" in 1806. In 1878,Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager "corrected" the gender agreement of "Stylidium armeria" to "Stylidium armerium". This specific epithet, however, is not an adjective but a noun inapposition , so the suffix should not be changed with different gender generic names. Later,Ferdinand von Mueller insisted on using the illegitimate genus "Candollea" and shifted the "Stylidium" species back in the late 1800s. Those moves, however, were not widely adopted. In 2001, Raulings and Ladiges recognized several synonyms.See also
References
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