Fabaceae tribe Mirbelieae

Stonesiella

 

Stonesiella Crisp & P.H.Weston (1999), Taxon 48, 711.

1 sp., S. selaginoides (Hook.f.) Crisp & P.H. Weston
In honour of Margaret Stones (1920-), botanical artist who illustrated this species in The Endemic Flora of Tasmania.
East coast of Tasmania (very restricted).
In closed heath on moist sites on floodplains and near drainage lines in hills.
Illustrated and described as Pultenaea selaginoides Hook.f. in E.M. Stones & W.M. Curtis, Endemic Fl. Tasmania (4), t. 237 (1978).
Spindly shrubs in the Pultenaea group within the multiple embyro-sac group, and probably closest to Almaleea; diagnosed in part by keeled leaves with minute stipules and caducous, leaf-like bracts.

© M. Crisp

Stonesiella selaginoides, © M. Stones

 

Stonesiella selaginoides © J. Lynch

 

Stonesiella selaginoides © J. Lynch

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