''Stylidium nymphaeum'' is a climbing triggerplant found along the southern coast of

Southwest Australia Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Aus ...

. The species uses the curved tips of its leaves to clamber over nearby plants, attaining a height between 1.4 and 2.5 metres. These leaves are long and slender, between 15 and 75 millimetres in length and 0.8 to 2 millimetres in width, are hairless, and have an entire margin. The scape is also hairless. The flowers are pink to purple, appearing from December or January to May. The species is found on sandy clay or peaty sands in seasonally wet, low-lying areas, and alongside creeks, in dense scrub. ''Stylidium nymphaeum'' was described in 2010 by

Juliet Wege Juliet Ann Wege (born 1971 in Western Australia) is an Australian botanist. She graduated in 1992 and gained a PhD at The University of Western Australia in 1999 with a thesis titled "Morphological and anatomical variation within Stylidium (Stylid ...

, based on material collected by Robert Brown and illustrated by

Ferdinand Bauer Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (20 January 1760 – 17 March 1826) was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia. Biography Early life and career Bauer was born in Feldsberg in 1760, the youngest son of ...

. Brown obtained several specimens at

King George Sound King George Sound ( nys , Menang Koort) is a sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Named King George the Third's Sound in 1791, it was referred to as King George's Sound from 1805. The name "King George Sound" gradually came into use ...

that he eventually used for the type collection conceived as ''

Stylidium scandens ''Stylidium scandens'' (the climbing triggerplant) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus '' Stylidium'' (family Stylidiaceae). ''S. scandens'' is endemic to Australia and is found primarily in the southwestern region of Western Au ...

'', though his notes made prior to that species first description identify the larger specimens he obtained at Lake Powell.''Nuytsia'' 20:104-107, Figs 2e-g, 7 (2010
Stylidium miscellany 1: typifications and new taxa from south-west Western Australia
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Carnivorous plants of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia

nymphaeum A ''nymphaeum'' or ''nymphaion'' ( grc, νυμφαῖον), in ancient Greece and Rome, was a monument consecrated to the nymphs, especially those of springs. These monuments were originally natural grottoes, which tradition assigned as habit ...

Asterales of Australia Plants described in 2010 {{Australia-asterid-stub

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