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"S. graminifolium has one of the widest ranges in the Stylidium genus, extending from Tasmania to Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland over to South Australia.[2] Its typical habitat is dry sclerophyll forests with nutrient-poor soil conditions throughout its range.[1]" Since the page states that this species grows throughout Australia the above says that all of austral has poor sclerophyll soils...that is not correct the way I had it phrased corrected this. The many wholesale reversions keeps this confusing sentence.Hardyplants 01:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC) "It has been considered to be a carnivorous or protocarnivorous" this looks and reads like word over kill...the way i had the sentance befor made it simple and correct and easy to read... "Stylidium graminifolium, the grass triggerplant, is a species complex of dicotyledonous plant in the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). The name has been conserved and applied to one species, S. graminifolium and two other species have been named. It is endemic to Australia with one of the widest distributions for a Stylidium species, were it is found growing throughout Australia.[1] It is a herbaceous perennial plant with grass-like leaves that is often grouped with carnivorous or protocarnivorous plants because it possesses glandular trichomes underneath the flowers that can trap and digest prey. It is easily cultivated, with showy flowers." Hardyplants 02:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- Excellent! Now we have communication! Thanks for replying. I see what you mean on the first sentence. How about we change it to something like, "Its most common habitat is dry sclerophyll forests with nutrient-poor soil conditions." I suppose "throughout its range" isn't necessary.
- The problem with the way you had reworded the sentence about it being grouped with carnivorous plants is that you had said "often". I've only come across two or three references by the same author (Darnowski) that considers it to be carnivorous. It hasn't yet been embraced by the carnivorous plant growers community. I didn't include that in the article because it is possibly original research since it's an observation of mine. So the easiest way I found to describe that, and the most truthful, was to say that it's been considered to be carnivorous by at least one academic expert on the genus. On another note, the way you had the first sentence worded of the intro was introducing the topic of the Stylidium graminifolium complex first and then the species. The complex is secondary since the primary usage of the species name is now the single species, which is why I did include the notation in the intro but after the first sentence.
- Thanks for taking the time to discuss this first. --Rkitko (talk) 02:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
