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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Stylidium perplexum (Stylidiaceae): a remarkable new triggerplant from south-west Western Australia
WEGE, J.A.

Stylidium perplexum Wege is newly described and photographs and a distribution map provided. This distinctive triggerplant has a tuberous, multi-stemmed and somewhat shrubby habit, discoid glandular trichomes restricted to the pedicels and hypanthia, linear leaves to 2 cm long, an elliptic hypanthium, narrow calyx lobes, and white to purplish laterally-paired corolla lobes bearing eight purple-tipped throat appendages. It occurs within a Conservation Park south-east of Dardanup and is listed as having conservation priority in Western Australia.