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Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-21
Page range: 113–116
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Stylidium javanicum (Stylidiaceae), a new triggerplant record for the Philippines

School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Antique Province flora Panay subg. Andersonia sect. Alsinoida taxonomy

Abstract

Stylidium javanicum, a very poorly known species formerly only recorded from Java, Sumba, and New Guinea, is here reported as a new record for the Philippines, where it was found in grasslands in Antique Province of Panay Island. It is morphologically similar to S. alsinoides, the only other Stylidium species known for the country, but can be distinguished from it by larger flowers, smaller fruits, and more narrowly acute petal apices.