Stylidiumn.
/stʌɪˈlɪdɪəm/ Botany.
A genus of gamopetalous plants, native in Australia, India, and Sri Lanka, remarkable for the irritability of the column formed by the union of the stamens and style. The genus had been named Candollea by Labillardière in 1805; this older name has been recently revived in accordance with the rule that the earliest botanical name given to a genus should be preserved. Hence the N.O. of which the genus is the type is now often called Candolleaceæ for the earlier Stylidiaceæ or Stylidieæ.
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Stylidium1829
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1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 154 A New Holland genus named stylidium.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 340 The shrinking of the Mimosa, the collapsing of Dionæa, and the elastic spring of Stylidium [may be due to galvanism].
1878 F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin III. 287 As far as I know, Stylidium is the sole case of sensitive pistil.
1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 512 Species of Stylidium are grown in conservatories.
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