A small ephemeral plant which grows in winter wet areas with other Stylidium plants. This plant is very similar to Stylidium emarginatum but has no throat appendages.
I find this Stylidium quite grand as it can grow to nearly 1m tall with its yellow flowers up the flowering spike. The rosette of leaves at the base are unique with a membranous edge to the leaf. "Etymology. The specific epithet is taken from the Greek (hymen membranous, craspedus margined) in reference to the conspicuous hyaline leaf margin." Stylidium hymenocraspedum WegeNuytsia 16:250-252 (2006)Here the plant was growing in the open full sun on a gravel track. I like the way the leaves looked just like the skin on our 'bob-tail' lizards. The colours were really amazing. Photo: Jean
This bee visited many flowers, most flowers hitting the bee on its thorax with its irritable trigger before the bee moved onto another flower. Most of the time the bee moved on to a new flower very quickly. We noticed a couple of times that the trigger missed the bee, trapping it on the flower for a short while until it rolled over releasing itself from under the trigger. We saw two of these bees visiting the flowers
Summary[edit] Description: Donatia novae-zelandiae cushion with Celmisia sp. and a wee beetle. Tarn Col, Arthur's Pas NP, New Zealand. Date: February 2001. Source: Own work. Author: Blacksand. Other versions: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blacksand/22138198/.
Description: English: Stylidium hispidum growing in the Strettle Road reserve, Glen Forrest, Western Australia. Date: 18 September 2008. Source: uploaded by photographer. Author: JarrahTree. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution ShareAlike 3.0. I User:JarrahTree hereby publish API under Creative CommonsAttribution 2.5 Australia License Attribution requirement; Photographs by JarrahTree..commons.wikimedia.org process functionality required template. process functionality requires a generic template that best reflected image licensing as prescribed above on the 13 Spetember 2012, where there is any difference/conflict/decrepency between what is described above as the image license and this template the above license as indicated takes precedence JarrahTree, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license: : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 2.5 Australia license.:. Attribution: Photographs by JarrahTree..commons.wikimedia.org. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/deed.en CC BY 2.5 au Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 au truetrue..
Summary[edit] Description: Native, cool season, perennial herb usually 30–40 cm tall, but up to 70 cm. Leaves are erect grass-like, basally tufted, linear and 5–25 cm long. Flowerheads are racemes up to half the length of the scape. Flowers are shortly pedicellate, 5–10 mm long and pale to bright pink; the labellum is narrowed to a rounded point at apex; the column is reflexed behind the petals and is stimulated by an insect alighting on the flower, which causes the column to spring over and descend with a hammer-like action to spread pollen on the insect or, when the stigma is receptive, to receive pollen from the other plants red; anthers and ovaries are glandular. Flowering is from late spring to mid-summer. Most common in dry sclerophyll forests with nutrient-poor soils. Date: 12 September 2008, 09:57. Source: Stylidium graminifolium flower8. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Donatia novae-zelandiae in flower, Cradle Mountain Lake Saint Clair National Park, Tasmania. Photographer: Kinara Johnson. Date: 12 January 2014, 16:45:45. Source: Own work. Author: KinAJohnson.
Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: JA Wege 1828. Date: 15 September 2011, 13:42. Source: Levenhookia leptantha. Author: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Phyllachne colensoi on Lewis Top near Lewis Pass, Canterbury (New Zealand). Date: 22 November 2017, 02:32:29. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.