Stylidium calcaratum
| Stylidium calcaratum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Stylidiaceae |
| Genus: | Stylidium |
| Subgenus: | Stylidium subg. Centridium |
| Species: | S. calcaratum
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| Binomial name | |
| Stylidium calcaratum R.Br. 1810
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| Synonyms | |
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Candollea calcarata (R.Br.) | |
Stylidium calcaratum, the book triggerplant, is a
Victoria through South Australia and into Western Australia. Its habitat is recorded as being wet flats or near creeks and seepages. Pollination is achieved by a grey fly, Comptosia cuneata.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Robert Brown in his 1810 Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The same species was described as Stylidium androsaceum in John Lindley's 1839 A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony and again as Stylidium lindleyanum in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder, both of which were later reduced to synonymy with this current and older name.
One
variety of this species was described by Rica Erickson and Jim Willis in 1956. Stylidium calcaratum var. ecorne was described as a variety on the basis of the absence of a nectary spur and the fact that they produced pure colonies.[3] The variety was later elevated to the species level as S. ecorne
by P.G. Farrell and Sydney Herbert James in 1979.
See also
References
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