Plants of
South Australia
Stackhousia monogyna
Celastraceae
Creamy Stackhousia,
Creamy Candles
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Botanical art

Kath Alcock paintings: 5

Prior names

Stackhousia flava, partly

Common names

Creamy Stackhousia

Creamy Candles

Etymology

'Stackhousia' after the Cornish botanist and artist John Stackhouse (1742-1819) and Greek 'mono' single, 'gyne' woman; single ovary.

Distribution and status

Found in the Southern Flinders Ranges. Common on loam or sandy-loam soils, in sclerophyll woodland.
Herbarium region: Flinders Ranges
NRM region: Northern and Yorke
AVH map: SA distribution map (external link)

Plant description

Glabrous perennial to 50 cm high. Leaves linear to lanceolate; rarely broad-elliptic; to 30 mm long, 2�4 mm wide. Inflorescence a dense cylindrical spike; corolla cream-white to light-yellow; the tube 5-8 mm long; the lobes 3.2-5.4 mm long. Flowering July - December. Fruits are fruit a non-fleshy schizocarp; 3 seeded Seeds are seed broad-obovoid to broad-ellipsoid; green-brown, 1.5�3 mm; rugose to reticulate, the basal cavity shallow Seed embryo type is straight

Seed collection and propagation

Collect seeds between November and December. Remove flower spikes with mature seeds and store in until dry. Pass seed through sieves and aspirate to remove unwanted material Germination 80%, imbibed on 1% w/v agar for 5 weeks at 15�C. Germinated on 1% w/v agar supplemented with 250mg/L Gibberellic acid, 8/16 dark/light, 15�C. See http://data.kew.org/sid

Seeds stored:
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LocationNo. of seeds
(weight grams)
Number
of plants
Date
collected
Collection number
Collection location
Date
stored
% ViabilityStorage
temperature
 
MSB

1,660 (6 g)
6017-Nov-2005MKJ148
Murray
BGA2,500 (7.92 g)100+26-Nov-2008DJD1290
Flinders Ranges
20-Jul-200996%-18°C
Location: BGA — the seeds are stored at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, MSB — the seeds are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew, England.
Number of plants: This is the number of plants from which the seeds were collected.
Collection location: The Herbarium of South Australia's region name.
% Viability: Percentage of filled healthy seeds determined by a cut test or x-ray.
Germination table:
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