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Stylidium graminifolium Sw.
Grass Triggerplant
The photos  from North Queensland are of plants growing on the Herberton Range with Thelymitra queenslandica and Dipodium ensifolium. Other plants are from the Snowy Mountains and Tasmania.As APC comments: "This taxon is part of a complex of species that is in need of further taxonomic research".
 
 
  Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
  Description:Flower spike Description:Flower spike
  Location:Herberton Range, North Queensland Location:Herberton Range, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:17˚ 20.466S,145˚ 25.198E GPS coordinates:17˚ 20.466S,145˚ 25.198E
  Date of photo:11 April 2010 Date of photo:25 August 2007
  Field No.:595A Field No.:U618
     
  Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
  Description:Whole plant with Thelymitra sp Description:Flower spike
  Location:Herberton Range, North Queensland Location:Herberton Range, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:17˚ 20.466S,145˚ 25.198E GPS coordinates:17˚ 20.466S,145˚ 25.198E
  Date of photo:26 August 2007 Date of photo:26 August 2007
  Field No.:U618 Field No.:U618
     
  Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
Description:Flowers showing glandular hairs Description:Flower spike
  Location:Herberton Range, North Queensland Location: Yerrongbilly, New South Wales
  GPS coordinates:17˚ 20.4660S,145˚ 25.1976 GPS coordinates:N/A
  Date of photo:11 April 2010 Date of photo:29 December 2008
  Field No.:595A Field No.:U619
     
  Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
  Description:Flowers Description:Leaves
  Location:24K N of Childers, Queensland Location:24K N of Childers, Queensland
  GPS coordinates:25˚03.5113S, 152°13.8279E GPS coordinates:25˚03.5113S, 152°13.8279E
  Date of photo:23 August 2017 Date of photo:23 August 2017
  Field No.:6230 Field No.:6230
     
  Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
  Description:Plant (white form) Description:Flower spike (white form)
  Location:Beach, Cockle Creek,Tasmania Location:Beach, Cockle Creek,Tasmania
  GPS coordinates:43˚34.336S 146˚54.857E GPS coordinates:43˚34.336S 146˚54.857E
  Date of photo:7 January 2013 Date of photo:7 January 2013
  Field No.:1848 Field No.:1848
     
Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
  Description:Flower spike Description:Flower spike
  Location:Miena to Poatina, Tasmania Location:Maydena to Lake Pedder, Tasmania
  GPS coordinates:41˚48.6510S, 146°53.6620E GPS coordinates:42˚44.2430S, 146°29.5950E
  Date of photo:1 January 2016 Date of photo:4 January 2016
  Field No.:3712 Field No.:3786
     
  Stylidium graminifolium Stylidium graminifolium
 
  Description:Flower spike showing triggers. Description:Plants in alpine habitat
  Location:Hartz Mountains,Tasmania (alpine) Location:Hartz Mountains,Tasmania (alpine)
  GPS coordinates:43˚14.027S 146˚46.381E GPS coordinates:43˚14.027S 146˚46.381E
  Date of photo:4 January 2010 Date of photo:6 January 2013
  Field No.:U617 Field No.:1833
     
     

References (accessed 9 September 2017):

http://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/OTHERS/sStylidium_graminifolium.htm

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stylidium~graminifolium

Raulings E.J. &  Ladiges P.Y.(2001),  Morphological variation and speciation in Stylidium graminifolium (Stylidiaceae), description of S. montanum and reinstatement of S. armeria, Australian Systematic Botany 14(6): 901 - 935

 

 

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