Stylidium graminifolium

Stylidium graminifolium
	Stylidium graminifolium
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids II
Order :	Astern-like (Asterales)
Family :	Stylidiaceae
Genre :	Shot plants ( Stylidium )
Type :	Stylidium graminifolium
Scientific name
	Stylidium graminifolium
	Sw. ex Willd.

Stylidium graminifolium is a species of shot plants ( Stylidium ) within the Stylidiaceae family. It has the largest range within its genus Stylidium , which includes Tasmania , Victoria (Australia) , New South Wales and South Australia .

Like all species of the genus, it produces digestive enzymes in the trichomes underneath the flowers and is therefore assigned to the carnivorous plants .

description

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Vegetative characteristics

Stylidium graminifolium grows clump-like as a grass-like, perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of up to 60 cm. The basal leaves are 6 to 20 cm long and about 4 mm wide.

Generative characteristics

Several flowers stand together in a racemose inflorescence on an inflorescence stem up to 40 cm high . The relatively small, hermaphrodite flowers have a diameter of about 10 mm. The five or four petals are usually pink, sometimes white, while the fifth is bent back. The two stamens and the stylus have grown together to form a touch-sensitive column.

Chromosome number

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 30.

photos

Detail of the flower with tensed and released column

literature

Douglas W. Darnowski: Trigger Plants . Rosenberg Publishing, Dural Delivery Center NSW 2002, ISBN 1-877058-03-3 .

Datasheet - Stylidium graminifolium , 2009 from the Australian Native Plants Society .

Individual evidence

↑ Douglas W. Darnowski, DM Carroll, Bartosz Płachno, E. Kabanoff, E. Cinnamon: Evidence of Protocarnivory in Triggerplants (Stylidium spp .; Stylidiaceae). In: Plant Biology. Vol. 8, No. 6, 2006, ISSN 1435-8603 , pp. 805-812, doi : 10.1055 / s-2006-924472 .
↑ Douglas Darnowski, Stephen Moberly, Bartosz Plachno: Triggerplants (Stylidium spp .; Stylidiaceae): A Previously Unrecognized Genus of Carnivorous Plants. , Presentation, "Botany & Plant Biology 2007", 7. – 11. July 2007, Chicago, Illinois, Session Cp52, Number Cp52001, Abstract ID 18, ( Abstract )
^ Stylidium graminifolium at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

Web links

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[1] Douglas W. Darnowski, DM Carroll, Bartosz Płachno, E. Kabanoff, E. Cinnamon: Evidence of Protocarnivory in Triggerplants (Stylidium spp .; Stylidiaceae). In: Plant Biology. Vol. 8, No. 6, 2006, ISSN 1435-8603 , pp. 805-812, doi : 10.1055 / s-2006-924472 .

[2] Douglas Darnowski, Stephen Moberly, Bartosz Plachno: Triggerplants (Stylidium spp .; Stylidiaceae): A Previously Unrecognized Genus of Carnivorous Plants. , Presentation, "Botany & Plant Biology 2007", 7. – 11. July 2007, Chicago, Illinois, Session Cp52, Number Cp52001, Abstract ID 18, ( Abstract )

[IPCN-3] Stylidium graminifolium at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis