Stylidium sect. Repentes

Taxobox
name = "Repentes"


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Stylidiaceae
genus = "Stylidium"
subgenus = "Tolypangium"
sectio = "Repentes"
sectio_authority = Mildbr. 1908
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="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.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.] 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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