Stylidium graminifolium

Stylidium graminifolium
S. graminifolium flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Stylidiaceae
Genus: Stylidium
Subgenus: Stylidium subg. Tolypangium
Section: Stylidium sect. Lineares
Species:
S. graminifolium
Binomial name
Stylidium graminifolium
Synonyms

Candollea serrulata Labill.
Candollea graminifolia (Willd.F.Muell.

showing mucous secreting hairs

Stylidium graminifolium, the grass triggerplant, is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). This species used to belong to the Stylidium graminifolium complex, but the name was conserved for this single species when two others were split from the complex and introduced as new species in 2001.[1] S. graminifolium is endemic to Australia and is the Stylidium species with the widest distribution throughout Australia.[2] It is a perennial plant with grass-like leaves and is easily cultivated. It has been considered to be a carnivorous or protocarnivorous plant because it possesses glandular trichomes underneath the flowers that can trap and digest prey.

  1. ^ Jackson, W.D. and Wiltshire, R.J.E. (2001). Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania. Australian Systematic Botany, 14(6): 937-969.
  2. ^ Darnowski, Douglas W. (2002). Triggerplants. Australia: Rosenberg Publishing.

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