Stylidium sect. Tenella

Taxobox
name = "Tenella"


image_caption = "Stylidium fissilobum"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Stylidiaceae
genus = "Stylidium"
subgenus = "Andersonia"
sectio = "Tenella"
sectio_authority = (Benth.) A.R.Bean
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Stylidium aquaticum" "Stylidium capillare" "Stylidium confertum" "Stylidium diffusum" "Stylidium fissilobum" "Stylidium inconspicuum" "Stylidium longissimum" "Stylidium nominatum" "Stylidium oviflorum" "Stylidium prophyllum" "Stylidium tenellum"
type_species = "Stylidium tenellum"
type_species_authority = Sw. ex Willd.
synonyms ="Stylidium" ser. "Tenellae":Benth. 1869"Stylidium" section "Tenella" is a taxonomic rank under "Stylidium" subgenus "Andersonia". In 2000, A.R. Bean published a taxonomic revision of subgenus "Andersonia" and established this section to separate these eleven species based on morphological and cladistic analysis. This taxonomic rank is named for George Bentham's series "Tenellae", which he established in his 1869 treatment of the family Stylidiaceae. Series "Tenellae" wasn't used in Johannes Mildbraed's 1908 taxonomic monograph in which he completely revised the subgeneric taxonomy of the genus. Mildbraed's treatment of the genus taxonomy is the general demarcation which has been used in subsequent revisions and additions.Bean, A.R. (2000). A revision of "Stylidium" subg. "Andersonia" (R.Br. ex G.Don) Mildbr. (Stylidiaceae). "Austrobaileya" 5(4): 589-649.]

Species in this section have sessile leaves that are often minute, bract-like, and rarely form rosettes. Scapes are very short or mostly absent.

See also

* List of "Stylidium" species

References