Stylidium graminifolium
Sw. Grass TriggerplantPerennial, sometimes rhizomatous herb, with scapes c. 30–75 cm high. Leaves grass-like, tufted at base, c. erect, narrow-linear, 14–20(–40) cm long, 1–3 mm wide, usually glaucous, margins minutely and c. regularly serrate, thickened, sometimes recurved, apex aristate. Scapes increasingly glandular-pubescent from base to apex; flowers 10–25, in simple erect racemes. Calyx linear-lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, glandular-pubescent, lobes equal, shorter than tube, united into 2 lips; corolla c. 9 mm across, pale pink to deep lilac, lobes paired laterally, subequal, oblong, the posterior pair slightly narrower, labellum acute with short linear appendages, throat appendages 8 (6 prominent, 2 reduced), glandular; column c. 7 mm long; anthers dark-rimmed, pollen white; stigma oval, cushion-like. Capsule orbicular-oblong, 3–5 mm long; seeds c. 2 mm long, light brown. Flowers mostly Aug.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Locally common in Victoria, in sandy or gravelly soils of heaths, woodlands and open-forests from near sea-level to lower montane areas.
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.
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