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Common name:     Trigger plants                  

Etymology:   From the Greek στύλος or stylos (column or pillar), which refers to the distinctive reproductive structure that its flowers possess

Flowers:                  

• Four petals, zygomorphic in nature, with the trigger protruding from the "throat" of the flower and resting below 

•  the plane of the flower petals. Size ranges from 5 mm wide  to the 30 mm. 

• Colour varies, but most are white, cream, yellow, or pink. Usually in a spike or dense raceme. x

Fruit:                         

• Fruit fleshy, or non-fleshy; dehiscent; a capsule; 4–∞ seeded  Seeds endospermic. Endosperm oily. Seeds minute.

Leaves:         

•     Some leaves are very thin, almost needle-like, others are short, stubby, and arranged in rosettes. 

•      Others form scrambling, tangled mats typically propped up on aerial roots.   

Habit:        

•     Plant forms range from wiry, creeping mats.    

Habitat:                     

•    x

Species:                     

• World:            > 300 S,    G. 

•  Most are endemic to Australia. 

• Australia:      S,    G. 

•   In Western Australia alone, there are more than 150 species.

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