Stylidium sp.

Trigger Plant at Kowen, ACT

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	Stylidium sp.	15 Jan 2016	MichaelMulvaney
	Stylidium graminifolium	4 Nov 2015	KenT

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7 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

7 Nov 2015

I think this is a job for the experts. I hope your collecting permits come through soon. The bifurrowed leaves with prominent midrib below, and pale flowers, suggest S. graminifolium, but the leaf width and the fact that they do not appear to be glaucous (with a waxy bloom), suggest S. armeria. The authors of the original paper give a lot of detail about S. armeria which does not appear n the description of S. graminifolium.

KenT wrote:

8 Nov 2015

Thanks Betty, the variability I have seen in this group of the Stylidiums around the ACT has often left me wondering what I have. Neither the PlantNET key or the one of Best et al. in Muelleria 27(2): 174-178 (2009) really seem to work for all the variability in the plants we have here, I haven't seen the papers of Jackson & Wiltshire 2001 and Raulings & Ladiges 2001 in Australian Systematic Botany so I don't know if they have anything else to offer

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

10 Dec 2024

Good morning @KenT .

Now I'm interested if specimen(s) of this population went in to herbaria as well ?

I can send you those two 2001 published journals' articles ?

KenT wrote:

10 Dec 2024

Unfortunately I didn't have a permit at this stage, so it is possible that that population remains uncollected. I suspect the traditional plodding botanical descriptive approaches alone may not provide the answers ecologists and naturalists are after for a quick reliable identification in this group of Stylidium. At the moment it seems that much uncertainty exists in understanding characters or groups of characters truly useful for recognizing and separating species. The application of molecular tools may first be necessary to recognize valid species or subspecies entities. Multivariate statistical techniques could then be tried to identify which combination of physical characters can be best to use to distinguish and recognize the molecular defined entities. It has been more than 30 yrs since I've used such statistics and I've never had any experience with modern molecular biology, so all this is well beyond me now.

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

10 Dec 2024

Indeed for the necessarily multiple methods of resolution of the taxonomy of the broadest sense of Stylidium graminifolium – i agree,
including with my own views and as i am used to for decades,
Juliet Wege's views i have quoted and
now your expressed above views !

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

10 Dec 2024

Of interest:
What word(s) do you say to describe the obvious trichomes or hairs on these leaves ?

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

10 Dec 2024

Does this match or have similarity ? : https://photos.natureshare.org.au/user_generated_content/original/observations/photos/original/53b3985ce35eb129840111df.jpg
( https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/75734875/original.jpeg ) .
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16 - 100 Abundance
3 Nov 2015 10:35 AM Recorded on
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True In flower

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Stylidium sp. Scientific name
Trigger Plant Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1741.28m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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