Stylidium armeria

Stylidium armeria

Taxobox



image_width = 220px
image_caption = Illustration of "Stylidium armeria" (syn. "Candollea serrulata") from Ferdinand von Mueller 1892 "Iconography of Candolleaceous Plants"
regnum = Plantae
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 to Australia. 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. Inflorescences 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 the Otway 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 of Polypodiaceae, 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 in apposition, 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

* List of "Stylidium" species

References


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