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Stylidium is a small annual herb, 5-13 cm tall. Leaves all basal, ovate-round, ovate to obovate, 5-8 mm long, apex rounded obtuse or rounded, entire and glabrous; corolla white, about 2 mm long, capsule slender columnar, about 8 mm long. Produced in the coastal areas of Guangdong, China. It prefers to grow in moist grasslands by streams in hilly areas.
Morphological characteristics of Stylidium
A small annual herb, 5-13 cm tall. Leaves all basal, with a very short petiole, ovate-round, ovate to obovate, 5-8 mm long, apex rounded obtuse or rounded, entire, glabrous, veins inconspicuous. Stems 1-3, leafless, unbranched, or bifurcately branched, upper part sparsely covered with short glandular hairs. Inflorescence a long lax spicate inflorescence. Flowers small, sessile; bracts ovate, less than 1 mm long; calyx tube (ovary) narrowly elongated, sparsely glandular hairy, lobes small, the anterior 2 connate into one lobe shallowly 2-lobed at the apex, 1.8 mm long, the remaining 3 linear, 1.2 mm long; corolla white, about 2 mm long, tube short, the anterior lobe very small, ovate, reflexed into a labellum, the remaining 4 spreading backward, the posterior 2 longer, apex 2-lobed, with appendages at the base; column 3.5 mm long, exserted; ovary 2-locular. Capsule slender columnar, about 8 mm long.
Distribution of Stylidium
Produced along the coast of Guangdong. Also in Sri Lanka and Queensland in northeastern Australia. Born in moist grasslands by streams in hilly areas.
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