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Stylidium montanum Raulings & Ladiges
Alpine Triggerplant

 
It
is difficult  to differentiate  this species from Stylidium graminifolium and Stylidium armeria in the Australian Alps. The article cited below provides a key.







  Stylidium montanum Stylidium montanum
 
Description:Flower Description:Plants in habitat
  Location:Falls Creek,Victoria Location:Falls Creek,Victoria
  GPS coordinates:36˚53.283S,147˚15.185E GPS coordinates:36˚53.283S,147˚15.185E
  Date of photo:19 January 2012 Date of photo:19 January 2012
  Field No.:1020 Field No.:1020
     
  Stylidium montanum Stylidium montanum
 
  Description:Flower spike Description:Plant
  Location:Falls Creek,Victoria Location:Falls Creek,Victoria
  GPS coordinates:N/A GPS coordinates:N/A
  Date of photo:7 January 2009 Date of photo:7 January 2009
  Field No.:U620 Field No.:U620
     
  Stylidium montanum Stylidium montanum
 
  Description:Plant Description:Plant
  Location:Falls Creek,Victoria Location:Falls Creek,Victoria
  GPS coordinates:36˚53.283S,147˚15.185E GPS coordinates:36˚53.283S,147˚15.185E
  Date of photo:19 January 2012 Date of photo:19 January 2012
  Field No.:1020 Field No.:1020
     
     

References (accessed 9 September 2017):

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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Stylidium montanum