Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stylidium laricifolium
Common name
Giant triggerplant, Tree triggerplant
Family
Stylidaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and rocky places. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub or perennial herb to 1.50 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded, 1–8 cm long, about 1-2 mm wide, margins often rolled down, surfaces hairless. Flowers pale pink to white, sometimes spotted darker pink, 10–15 mm in diameter, with a short tube and 4 petals, and a hinged column 6–7 mm long sensitive to movement, arising from the centre of the flower. Flowers in elongated branched clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stylidium~laricifolium (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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