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
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Stonesiella selaginoides, © M.
Stones
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