Stylidium sect. Tenella

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Tenella
Stylidium fissilobum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Asterales Family: Stylidiaceae Subfamily: Stylidioideae Genus: Stylidium Subgenus: Andersonia Section: Tenella (Benth.) A.R.Bean
Type species
Stylidium tenellum Sw. ex Willd.
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 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 for George Bentham's series Tenellae, which he established in his 1869 treatment of the family Stylidiaceae. Series Tenellae wasn't 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]

[edit] See also

• List of Stylidium species

[edit] References