Stylidium subulatum Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Stylidium subulatum Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 168 (1864)

Preferred name

Stylidium subulatum Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Wedge, J.A. 2012: Navigating the floral Milky Way: the taxonomy of the microgeophytic triggerplants (Stylidium petiolare and allies: Stylidiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 138–169.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.

Year published

1864

Publication page

168

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Stylidium subulatum Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Stylidium subulatum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Stylidiaceae

Genus

Stylidium

Species

subulatum

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Oreostylidium subulatum (Hook.f.) Berggr.

Description

Glab. herb with short stock, deeply descending taproot, emitting slender stolons or rhizomes with internodes up to ± 6 cm. long. Lvs densely tufted, spreading, ± recurved, sessile, entire, 10-40 × 1-2-(3) mm., linear, shallowly concavo-convex, mucronate, sts almost pungent. Peduncles 1-fld, rather stout, glab. to pubescent, sts still not > 5 mm. long when capsule mature, sts elongating to ± 2 cm long. Bracts, if present, lflike. Fls 4-5 mm. diam.; receptacle adnate to ovary, ± glandular-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 1-2 mm. long, persistent, ascending, oblong, obtuse, ± mucronate. Corolla-lobes patent, oblong, obtuse, white. Capsule 5-8 × 4-5 mm., broad-ovoid to subglobose to obovoid.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.