Family: Stylidium
Genus: Stylidium: trigger plants
300 species. Most are endemic to Australia. A few in Asia. China and the Philippines.
Species: Stylidium Graminifolium: Trigger Plant
Joseph Banks collected several specimens.
Pollination: Male and female reproductive organs fused together in a sensitive column/trigger.
An insect lands causing the trigger to snap forward covering the insect in pollen. The trigger resets itself within minutes and can fire many times.
Common infertile places. Dry rocky areas, waterlogged peats.
Identified by their trigger beneath the plane of the flower. Flowers are zygomorphic. Symmetrical in one plane.
Flowers: pink. spring.
Stem: 50cm long.
Distribution: Queensland, NSW, Victoria, SA, Tasmania
Genus: Stylidium: trigger plants
300 species. Most are endemic to Australia. A few in Asia. China and the Philippines.
Species: Stylidium Graminifolium: Trigger Plant
Joseph Banks collected several specimens.
Pollination: Male and female reproductive organs fused together in a sensitive column/trigger.
An insect lands causing the trigger to snap forward covering the insect in pollen. The trigger resets itself within minutes and can fire many times.
Common infertile places. Dry rocky areas, waterlogged peats.
Identified by their trigger beneath the plane of the flower. Flowers are zygomorphic. Symmetrical in one plane.
Flowers: pink. spring.
Stem: 50cm long.
Distribution: Queensland, NSW, Victoria, SA, Tasmania