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Plants of the Fraser Coast Region

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Stylidium uliginosum     Sw. ex Willd.

This native groundcover is commonly known as swamp triggerplant.

Stylidium uliginosum is described as a "dicot" in the Stylidiaceae family.

In the Queensland Nature Conservation Act it is classified as Least Concern. Under the Federal Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act it is not classified.

Recorded distribution in the Fraser Coast region limited to K'gari (Fraser Island) but reported at various other localities on the mainland. Listed as a special least concern species in Queensland (https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/plants/protected-plants/harvesting). 

It has been recorded in the Wide Bay district in the Queensland Herbarium Census but is not listed as occurring in the Fraser Coast region in the Atlas of Living Australia.

Reported at 7 Fraser Coast localities: Beelbi Creek, K'gari, Mount Urah, Poona, Talegalla Weir, Tinnanbar, Tuan Forest.


Fraser Coast distribution based on unverified field reports.


             AVH

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