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Stylidium sect. Tenella

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Stylidium sect. Tenella
Stylidium fissilobum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Stylidiaceae
Genus: Stylidium
Subgenus: Stylidium subg. Andersonia
Section: Stylidium sect. Tenella
(Benth.) A.R.Bean
Type species
Stylidium tenellum
Species

Stylidium aquaticum
Stylidium capillare
Stylidium confertum
Stylidium diffusum
Stylidium fissilobum
Stylidium inconspicuum
Stylidium longissimum
Stylidium nominatum
Stylidium oviflorum
Stylidium prophyllum
Stylidium tenellum

Synonyms

Stylidium ser. Tenellae

Benth. 1869

Stylidium section Tenella is a taxonomic rank in the plant kingdom under Stylidium subgenus Andersonia. In 2000, A.R. Bean published a taxonomic revision of subgenus Andersonia and established this section to separate these eleven species based on morphological and cladistic analysis. This taxonomic rank is named after George Bentham's series Tenellae, which he established in his 1869 treatment of the family Stylidiaceae. Series Tenellae was not used in Johannes Mildbraed's 1908 taxonomic monograph in which he completely revised the subgeneric taxonomy of the genus. Mildbraed's treatment of the genus taxonomy is the general demarcation which has been used in subsequent revisions and additions.[1]

Species in this section have sessile leaves that are often minute, bract-like, and rarely form rosettes. Scapes are very short or mostly absent.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Bean, A.R. (2000). A revision of Stylidium subg. Andersonia (R.Br. ex G.Don) Mildbr. (Stylidiaceae). Austrobaileya 5(4): 589-649.