grassland candles at Epping, VIC
Identification history
| Stackhousia subterranea | 18 Oct 2024 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Stackhousia subterranea | 18 Oct 2024 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Stackhousia monogyna | 6 Mar 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Unverified | 6 Mar 2024 | WendyEM |
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galgi gnarrk (Graigieburn Grassland Nature Conservation Reserve)
lily growing along cracks in tessellated pavement in basalt
2 comments
JasonPStewart
wrote:
18 Oct 2024
*Stackhousia subterranea* – this looks like !
Thickened leaves.
Apparently in these two photographs, these growing stalks have underground joins by rhizomes.
In these two photographs, on these buds, I can just make out some saccate lower bracts at the bases of the most grown flowers' buds .
Quotation from Barker (2007):
"
*S. subterranea* differs from *S. monogyna*
s.str. by its horizontal roots deep in the soil, from which
clonal aerial stems or clusters of stems arise (Barker
1986, 1999), its thick rather fleshy leaves, its bracts
outwardly saccate in the basal half or two-thirds (Barker
1977, fig. 1A), ...
" .
References :
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• *Stackhousia* (genus) page, key to species : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2467
• *Stackhousia subterranea* : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/bd1cb980-9042-4f5a-aecf-d1285614c473
.
• Barker, William R. (2007)
*Stackhousia subterranea*, a new name and revised circumscription for S. gunnii Hook. f.(Stackhousiaceae∼ Celastraceae).
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 21 : 90–91 .
.
Thickened leaves.
Apparently in these two photographs, these growing stalks have underground joins by rhizomes.
In these two photographs, on these buds, I can just make out some saccate lower bracts at the bases of the most grown flowers' buds .
Quotation from Barker (2007):
"
*S. subterranea* differs from *S. monogyna*
s.str. by its horizontal roots deep in the soil, from which
clonal aerial stems or clusters of stems arise (Barker
1986, 1999), its thick rather fleshy leaves, its bracts
outwardly saccate in the basal half or two-thirds (Barker
1977, fig. 1A), ...
" .
References :
Flora of Vic. online VicFlora:
• *Stackhousia* (genus) page, key to species : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2467
• *Stackhousia subterranea* : → https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/bd1cb980-9042-4f5a-aecf-d1285614c473
.
• Barker, William R. (2007)
*Stackhousia subterranea*, a new name and revised circumscription for S. gunnii Hook. f.(Stackhousiaceae∼ Celastraceae).
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 21 : 90–91 .
.
Location information
- Coordinates 144.961868-37.629354
- Places Epping, VIC
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 26 Aug 2007 01:19 PM Recorded on
- WendyEM Recorded by
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Plants Other Wildflowers & Herbs WendyEM NatureMapr Stackhousia subterranea
Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- True In flower
Species information
- Stackhousia subterranea Scientific name
- grassland candles Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
-
In flower
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