Prodr. 571 (1810) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Erect ephemeral, to 12 cm high, simple or branched near base. Leaves few, scattered or sometimes gathered near the base but never rosetted, linear-lanceolate, 1–4 mm long, 1–3 mm wide. Flowers 3–6, shortly pedicellate in an irregular corymb. Calyx linear, c. 5 mm long, glandular-hairy, lobes shorter than the tube, subequal, 2 united almost to the tips; corolla 3–4 mm across, whitish to pale pink, usually darker toward lobe apices, lobes c. equal, paired vertically, c. oblong, blunt, labellum minute, ovate, pointed, throat appendages absent; column c. 1 mm long; anthers dark-rimmed, pollen whitish; stigma cushion-like. Capsule linear, c. 7 mm long; seeds c. 0.3 mm long, ellipsoid, dark brown, smooth to minutely ridged. Flowers Oct.–Dec.
CVU, DunT, EGL, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, MuF, MuM, NIS, OtP, SnM, Strz, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Except for the far north-west, widespread in Victoria in drying lowland swamps and margins of watercourses. In south-eastern Australia, Stylidium despectum often grows with S. beaugleholei and/or S. perpusillum.
Victorian plants previously assigned to S. inundatum are now referable to S. despectum. Stylidium inundatum is endemic in south-western Western Australia.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Murray Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Murray Fans | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |