Oreostylidium Berggr.

Details

Name scientific

Oreostylidium Berggr. (1877)

Preferred name

Stylidium Sw. ex Willd.

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.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Berggr.

Authors

Berggr.

Year published

1877

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Oreostylidium Berggr.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Oreostylidium

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Stylidiaceae

Genus

Oreostylidium

Subordinates

Oreostylidium subulatum

Descriptions

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

Oreostylidium Berggr.

Description

Fls solitary, peduncled. Calyx 2-lipped; lower 2-, upper 3-fid. Corolla subregular, campanulate; throat nude, limb deeply 5-fid; lobes ± equal, patent. Glands of disk hemispheric. Column erect, included; anthers didymous, 4-celled, 4-lobed. Stigma at anther level, lobes obtuse. Ovary 2-celled at base; ovules ∞, funicle long. Capsule somewhat woody, at length irregularly rupturing; seeds obovoid, funicle distinct, testa lax. Rosette stoloniferous herb. Genus of 1 known sp. endemio to N.Z.