Stylidium laricifolium
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Stylidium laricifolium, commonly known as giant trigger-plant, [1] larch-leaf or tree triggerplant,[2] or is a species of flowering plant in the family Stylidiaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a perennial subshrub with many linear leaves crowded along its few stems, the flowers white to pale pink and arranged in a single main panicle and smaller racemes.
Description
Stylidium laricifolium is a perennial subshrub with few stems, that typically grows to a height of Template:Cvt. The leaves are linear, Template:Cvt long, about Template:Cvt wide and crowded along the stems. The flowering stems are Template:Cvt high, with between ten and thirty flowers arranged in a single main panicle and several smaller racemes. The sepals are narrow lance-shaped, Template:Cvt long and joined at the base forming a tube longer than the lobes. The corolla is white to pale pink, about Template:Cvt wide with two pairs of oblong petals. The column is Template:Cvt long with a cushion-like stigma and the ovary is Template:Cvt long and covered with glandular hairs. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is an oblong capsule Template:Cvt long.[1][3]
Taxonomy
Stylidium laricifolium was first formally described in 1806 by Louis Claude Richard in Christiaan Hendrik Persoon's book Synopsis plantarum.[4][5] The specific epithet laricifolium refers to the long, narrow leaves, which resemble the leaf form of plants in the Larix genus.[2] The type specimen was probably collected during Nicholas Baudin's expedition to Australia, which included a visit to Port Jackson in 1802.[6]
Distribution and habitat
Giant trigger-plant grows in forest in rocky places from south-east Queensland, along the coast and tablelands of New South Wales to eastern Victoria.[1][3]
See also
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Print from William Jackson Hooker's 1823 Exotic Flora
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Habit
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Habitat near Raspberry Lookout in the Gibraltar Range
References
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