Stylidium fissilobum

Taxobox


image_caption = "S. fissilobum" drawing from the James Cook voyage in 1770.
status = DD
status_ref = Bean, A.R. (2000). A revision of "Stylidium" subg. "Andersonia" (R.Br. ex G.Don) Mildbr. (Stylidiaceae). "Austrobaileya" 5(4): 589-649.]
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Stylidiaceae
genus = "Stylidium"
subgenus = "Andersonia"
sectio = "Tenella"
species = "S. fissilobum"
binomial = "Stylidium fissilobum"
binomial_authority = F.Muell. 1859
synonyms ="Candollea fissiloba":(F.Muell.) F.Muell. 1883"Stylidium pseudotenellum":O.Schwarz 1927

"Stylidium fissilobum" is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus "Stylidium" (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that grows from 5 to 50 cm tall. Linear or deltate leaves, about 4-34 per plant, are scattered along the elongate, glabrous stem. The leaves are generally 1-6 mm long and 0.3-0.7 mm wide. Petioles and scapes are absent. Inflorescences are 3-18 cm long. Flowers are pink, white, or mauve and bloom from March to July in the southern hemisphere. "S. fissilobum"'s wide distribution ranges across northern Australia from the western Kimberley region and Northern Territory eastward as far as Mt Surprise in Queensland. Its habitat is recorded as being wet sands at swamp edges in association with grasslands and sedgelands. Due to its weak stem, this species often threads its way through supporting branches and leaves of the dense grass and sedge cover. "S. fissilobum" is most closely related to "S. aquaticum" and "S. oviflorum".

See also

* List of "Stylidium" species

References