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Stylidium tenerum Spreng.
Widespread in North Queensland in swamps with Drosera sp and Utricularia sp.The flowers are tiny and can be easily overlooked. There are small pink dots on the petals.One of the plants collected by Banks and Solander in 1770.The voucher specimen featured below is stored at the Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns.

	*Stylidium* *tenerum*	*Stylidium tenerum*

	Description:Flower (2mm wide)	Description:Rosette
	Location:Sawpit Gully, White Mountains National Park, North Queensland	Location:Sawpit Gully, White Mountains National Park, North Queensland
	GPS coordinates: 20˚40.625S 145˚11.038E	GPS coordinates: 20˚40.625S 145˚11.038E
	Date of photo: 10 June 2012	Date of photo: 10 June 2012
	Field No.:1076 voucher specimen	Field No.:1076 voucher specimen

	*Stylidium tenerum*	*Stylidium tenerum*

	Description:Flower	Description:Flower
	Location:Kate St, Portsmith, North Queensland	Location:Dam on Cape York Development Rd, North Queensland
	GPS coordinates:N/A	GPS coordinates: 14˚32.007S 143˚25.735E
	Date of photo:16 June 2012	Date of photo:10 July 2010
	Field No.:U623	Field No.:708

	*Stylidium* *tenerum*	*Stylidium* *tenerum*

	Description:Flower (2mm wide)	Description:Flower (2mm wide)
	Location:Sawpit Gully, White Mountains National Park, North Queensland	Location:Sawpit Gully, White Mountains National Park, North Queensland
	GPS coordinates: 20˚40.625S 145˚11.038E	GPS coordinates: 20˚40.625S 145˚11.038E
	Date of photo: 10 June 2012	Date of photo: 10 June 2012
	Field No.:1076 voucher specimen	Field No.:1076 voucher specimen

	*Stylidium* *tenerum*	*Stylidium* *tenerum*

	Description:Flower (2mm wide)	Description:Rosette
	Location:Mt Baldy, North Queensland	Location:Mt Baldy, North Queensland
	GPS coordinates:17˚17.719S 145˚21.542E	GPS coordinates:17˚17.719S 145˚21.542E
	Date of photo: 24 August 2014	Date of photo: 24 August 2014
	Field No.:2747	Field No.:2747

References (accessed 11 June 2016):

Bean, A.R. (2000) A revision of the Stylidium subg. Andersonia (R.Br. ex G.Don) Mildbr. (Stylidiaceae). Austrobaileya 5(4): 600-601

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

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