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Stylidium leeuwinense

Family
Stylidiaceae (Stylidi family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Stylidium leeuwinense is a species that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). The specific epithet leeuwinense refers to the Cape Leeuwin region in Western Australia where the type location for this species is. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows from 15 to 60 cm tall and has divided stems covered with tile-like leaves that are arranged in a spiral formation around the stem. The lanceolate leaves are basifixed and held closely against the stems. The leaves are around 2.5-3.5 mm long and 0.5-0.8 mm wide. Terminal inflorescences are racemose or spike-like and produce flowers that are reddish purple with laterally-paired lobes and bloom from February to May in their native range. S. leeuwinense is only known from south-western Western Australia along the coast from Augusta to Denmark. Its habitat is recorded as being black, peat-sand soils in swampy areas or heathland.

Other Stylidium plants

Grass Triggerplant · Stylidium inconspicuum · Stylidium javanicum · Stylidium laricifolium · Stylidium leptorrhizum · Stylidium lobuliflorum · Stylidium longicornu · Stylidium longissimum · Stylidium marradongense · Stylidium multiscapum · Stylidium muscicola · Stylidium nominatum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stylidium leeuwinense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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