Stackhousia monogyna

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Creamy stackhousia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Celastrales
Family: Celastraceae
Genus: Stackhousia
Species:
S. monogyna
Binomial name
Stackhousia monogyna
Synonyms
  • Plokiostigma lehmanniiSchuch.
  • Stackhousia aspericoccaSchuch.
  • Stackhousia aspericocca f. incrassataiPamp.
  • Stackhousia aspericocca f. genuinaiPamp. nom. inval.
  • Stackhousia dietrichiaeDomin
  • Stackhousia georgeiDiels
  • Stackhousia giuriatiiPamp.
  • Stackhousia gunnianaorth. var. Schltdl.
  • Stackhousia gunnii Hook.f.nom. illeg.
  • Stackhousia huegeliiEndl.
  • Stackhousia linariifoliaA.Cunn.
  • Stackhousia maideniiPamp.
  • Stackhousia maidenii var. flexuosaPamp.
  • Stackhousia maidenii var. typicaPamp. nom. inval.
  • Stackhousia monogyna var. linariifolia(A.Cunn.) Benth.
  • Stackhousia monogyna var. muelleri(Schuch.) Pamp.
  • Stackhousia monogyna var. obtusa(Lindl.) Pamp.
  • Stackhousia muelleriSchuch.
  • Stackhousia obtusaLindl.
  • Stackhousia pubescensA.Rich.
  • Stackhousia pubescens f. elatiorPamp.
  • Stackhousia pubescens f. genuinaPamp. nom. inval.
  • Stackhousia pubescens f. leiococcaSchuch.
  • Stackhousia tryoniiF.M.Bailey
Stackhousia monogyna photographed in Adaminaby, NSW Stackhousia monogyna.jpg
Stackhousia monogyna photographed in Adaminaby, NSW

Stackhousia monogyna, commonly known as creamy stackhousia or creamy candles, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Celastraceae. It is a small multi-stemmed plant with narrow leaves and terminal spikes of white, cream or yellow flowers. It is a widespread species found in all states of Australia but not the Northern Territory.

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Description

Stackhousia monogyna is a slender, multi-stemmed, perennial herb to 70 cm (28 in) high, covered with soft hairs or smooth on upright or ascending stems. The leaves are dark green, mostly narrow, linear to lance-shaped, up to 30 mm (1.2 in) long, 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide and rounded, acute or with a short point at the apex. The inflorescence consists of numerous white, cream or yellow flowers in a densely-packed cylindrical spike, each flower is tubular with five pointed spreading lobes up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long. Flowering occurs from late winter to early summer and the fruit is a wide oval or ellipsoid shaped mericarp, wrinkled to veined and 1.9–2.8 mm (0.075–0.110 in) long. [3] [4]

Taxonomy and naming

The species was described in 1861 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Desdemodium acanthocladum. [5] [6] In 1805 French naturalist Jacques Labillardière changed the name to Stackhousia monogyna and the description was published in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen . [7] [8] The specific epithet (monogyna) means "one", probably referring to the one-seeded fruit. [9]

Distribution and habitat

Creamy stackhousia is a common widespread species growing in grassland and dry forest on gravel, clay and granite in all states of Australia but not the Northern Territory. [2] [4]

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References

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