Stylidium tepperanum (F.Muell.) Mildbr.

Kangaroo Island trigger plant, Tepper's trigger plant

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: CandoIlea tepperiana F.Muell.

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in 1962 or before

Distribution

Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 26:27

Jessop, J. P. (ed.). (1989). A list of the vascular plants of South Australia (edition III). J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 12(1): 1-183. [automatic download]

Kinnear, A., Carruthers, S., Goodwins, D., Lang, P. and Robinson, A. (1999). Vegetation, pp. 65-185. In: Robinson, A. C. and Armstrong, D. M. (eds.). (1999). A Biological Survey of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 1989 & 1990. South Australia: Heritage and Biodiversity Section, Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs.

Lothian, T. R. N. (1962). Calostemma luteum Sims. Rediscovery of Stylidium tepperanum "Kangaroo Island trigger plant", and Scilla hyacinthoides on Kangaroo Island. South Australian Naturalist. 36 (4): 45-46.

Lothian, T. R. N. (1969). Tepper's trigger plant: Stylidium tepperianum [on Kangaroo Island]. South Australian Naturalist 43(4): 104-106.

Overton, B.M., McKelvey, M.W. and Overton, D.S. (1989). Distribution of Stylidium tepperanum (Kangaroo Island Trigger Plant) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. South Australian Society for Growing Australian Plants Journal. 10: 384-386.

Overton, B.M., Overton, D.S. and McKelvey, M.W. (1989). Map and record of the distribution of five of Kangaroo Island's flora: Stylidium tepperanum, Eremophila weldii, Phebalium equestre, Eremophila behriana and Asterolasia phebaloides. Final Report on a Wildlife Conservation Fund Grant. (Unpublished).

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