''Stylidium adnatum'', commonly known as common beaked triggerplant, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Stylidiaceae The family Stylidiaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It consists of five genera with over 240 species, most of which are endemic to Australia and New Zealand. Members of Stylidiaceae are typically grass-like herbs or small shrub ...

and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the southwest of Western Australia . This species is leafy-stemmed and scrambling, growing up to 10 cm tall with leaves to 3 cm long and 5 mm wide. It blooms in late winter and spring with small (3–4 mm wide), white flowers that bear red stripes.Darnowski, Douglas W. (2002). ''Triggerplants''. Australia: Rosenberg Publishing. ''S. adnatum'' is primarily found in

jarrah ''Eucalyptus marginata'', commonly known as jarrah, djarraly in Noongar language and historically as Swan River mahogany, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tree with roug ...

and

karri ''Eucalyptus diversicolor'', commonly known as karri, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is a tall tree with smooth light grey to cre ...

forests, among reeds of

paperbark ''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of ''Leptospermum''). They range in size f ...

swamps, and in

heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler ...

by streams entering the ocean.Erickson, Rica. (1958). ''Triggerplants''. Perth: Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd. 97-98. ''S. adnatum'' is also commonly found in the wild growing along cleared firebreaks in the Porongurup ranges'','' indicating that it is tolerant to ground disturbance. It has been cultivated by members of the WA Wildflower Society (a not-for-profit group) in Landsdale, where it can be purchased by the public. It is easily propagated by cuttings, and is robust in culture although can suffer from sucking insects such as scale. It has been found to grow well as an indoor potted plant near a well -lit window with indirect/partial sun. Taken together, these two pieces of information indicate that it would make a good commercial houseplant, possibly capturing the sector of the market fascinated by touch-stimulated plants such as venus fly traps or

mimosa ''Mimosa'' is a genus of about 590 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word (''mimos''), an "actor" or "mime", and the feminine suffix -''osa'', "resembl ...

''Stylidium adnatum''

var. In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in la, varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies, but above that of form. As such, it gets a three-part infraspecific name. It is sometimes recommended that the ...

''abbreviatum'' (

Benth. George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...

, 1868) is a variety of this species found in wild populations and is noted for its short and dense

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

. The variety was discovered and named twice, the second being ''S. adnatum'' var. ''propinquum'' ( R.Br.), though this name is no longer used.FloraBase, the Western Australia Flora. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia. Accesse
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on Nov. 30, 2006.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7629497 Asterales of Australia Carnivorous plants of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia adnatum

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