Stackhousia monogyna
{{short description|Species of plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|name = Creamy stackhousia
|image = Stackhousia monogyna.jpg
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|genus = Stackhousia
|species = monogyna
|authority = Labill.{{cite web |title=Stackhousia monogyne |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/80288 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=26 February 2023}}
|synonyms =
- Plokiostigma lehmannii Schuch.
- Stackhousia aspericocca Schuch.
- Stackhousia aspericocca f. incrassatai Pamp.
- Stackhousia aspericocca f. genuinai Pamp. nom. inval.
- Stackhousia dietrichiae Domin
- Stackhousia georgei Diels
- Stackhousia giuriatii Pamp.
- Stackhousia gunniana orth. var. Schltdl.
- Stackhousia gunnii Hook.f.nom. illeg.
- Stackhousia huegelii Endl.
- Stackhousia linariifolia A.Cunn.
- Stackhousia maidenii Pamp.
- Stackhousia maidenii var. flexuosa Pamp.
- Stackhousia maidenii var. typica Pamp. nom. inval.
- Stackhousia monogyna var. linariifolia (A.Cunn.) Benth.
- Stackhousia monogyna var. muelleri (Schuch.) Pamp.
- Stackhousia monogyna var. obtusa (Lindl.) Pamp.
- Stackhousia muelleri Schuch.
- Stackhousia obtusa Lindl.
- Stackhousia pubescens A.Rich.
- Stackhousia pubescens f. elatior Pamp.
- Stackhousia pubescens f. genuina Pamp. nom. inval.
- Stackhousia pubescens f. leiococca Schuch.
- Stackhousia tryonii F.M.Bailey
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File:Stackhousia monogyna.jpg, NSW]]
Stackhousia monogyna, commonly known as creamy stackhousia or creamy candles,{{cite web |last1=Brookes |first1=A.K |title=Stackhousia monogyna |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stackhousia~monogyna |website=PlantNET-flora of NSW online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney}} 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.
Description
Stackhousia monogyna is a slender, multi-stemmed, perennial herb to {{cvt|70|cm}} 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 {{cvt|30|mm}} long, {{cvt|2-4|mm}} 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 {{cvt|5|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from late winter to early summer and the fruit is a wide oval or ellipsoid shaped mericarp, wrinkled to veined and {{cvt|1.9-2.8|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Barker |first1=W.R |title=Stackhousia monogyna |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/39b67dbc-26ba-4e9a-8b61-5a939155dbf3 |website=VICFLORA-flora of Victoria |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=26 February 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Sharp |first1=Sarah |last2=Rehwinkel |first2=Rainer |last3=Mallinson |first3=Dave |last4=Eddy |first4=David |title=Woodland Flora a Field Guide for the Southern Tableland (NSW & ACT) |date=2015 |publisher=Horizons Print Management |location=Canberra |isbn=9780994495808}}
Taxonomy and naming
The species was described in 1861 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Desdemodium acanthocladum.{{cite web |title=Desmodium acanthocladum |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/524077 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=27 February 2023}}{{cite book |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |title=Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae |date=1861 |volume=v.2 1860-61 |location=Melbourne |page=122 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/760910#page/127/mode/1up}} In 1805 French naturalist Jacques Labillardière changed the name to Stackhousia monogyna and the description was published in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.{{cite web |title=Stackhousia monogyna |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/496099 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=27 February 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Labillardiere |first1=Jaques |title=Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen |date=1805 |volume=v.1 |page=77 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126969#page/76/mode/1up}} The specific epithet (monogyna) means "one", probably referring to the one-seeded fruit.{{cite book |last1=George |first1=A.S |last2=Sharr |first2=F.A |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables |location=Kardinya |isbn=9780958034197 |page=262 |edition=4th}}
Distribution and habitat
References
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Category:Flora of South Australia
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)
Category:Eudicots of Western Australia
Category:Flora of New South Wales
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