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Stylidium cornuatum Wege
Little Wildebeest
A beautiful little plant from Western Australia. This species was described in 2012 in the article cited below. The name is derived from the Latin (cornuatus, horn-shaped) and refers to the shape of the upper corolla lobes, which are considered to strongly resemble the horns of a wildebeest.The plants were growing in a Melaleuca swamp with many Drosera sp.

	*Stylidium* cornuatum	*Stylidium* cornuatum

	Description:Flower	Description:Flower showing ''wildëbeest horns''
	Location:Wilson Nature Reserve, Eneabba, Western Australia	Location:Wilson Nature Reserve, Eneabba, Western Australia
	GPS coordinates:withheld. WP2671	GPS coordinates:withheld. WP2671
	Date of photo: 9 August 2016	Date of photo: 9 August 2016
	Field No.:5459	Field No.:5459

	*Stylidium* cornuatum	*Stylidium* cornuatum

	Description:Flower - side view	Description:Flower - side view
	Location:Wilson Nature Reserve, Eneabba, Western Australia	Location:Wilson Nature Reserve, Eneabba, Western Australia
	GPS coordinates:withheld. WP2671	GPS coordinates:withheld. WP2671
	Date of photo: 9 August 2016	Date of photo: 9 August 2016
	Field No.:5459	Field No.:5459

Reference (accessed 30 September 2016):

Wege, J.A. (2012), Navigating the floral Milky Way: the taxonomy of the microgeophytic triggerplants (Stylidium petiolare and allies: Stylidiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 25:126-127

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Stylidium cornuatum