Levenhookia sonderi
Slender StylewortEphemeral herb, 3–10 cm high, simple or branched near base, glandular-pubescent and green throughout. Leaves orbicular, 1–2 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, glandular, shortly petiolate; leafy bracts smaller. Inflorescence a terminal corymb of 3–6 flowers. Calyx globose, 1–2 mm long, lobes obovate, more or less equal; corolla whitish, labellum shortly clawed, the hood-shaped lamina deep purple, almost equal in length to the lobes; stigma distinctly 2-lobed. Capsule globose, 3 mm long; seeds brown, globose, smooth. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
GleP, VVP, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, HSF. Also SA. In seasonally damp ground and drying swamps in lowland areas, mostly in the south-west (Little Desert, lower Glenelg River, Stawell areas), but extending eastward to Rushworth in the north and Beaconsfield in the south.
Raulings, E.J. (1999). Stylidiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 579–587. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
