Drosera kenneallyi

Drosera kenneallyi

Drosera kenneallyi is a carnivorous plant from the family of sundew plants ( Drosera ). It is found only on the Mitchell Plateau north of Kimberley in Australia's Northern Territory.

Description

In Drosera kenneallyi is a perennial herbaceous plant that forms individual indigenous rosettes. The leaves are pressed flat against the ground, the leaf stalks are smooth on the upper side, sparsely occupied on the bottom with simple, white hair, narrow reverse- lanceolate, 15-30 mm long 0.9 to 1 millimeter wide at the base, 1, 5 to 2.2 mm wide tapers in the middle and at the base of blade to 0.7 to 1 millimeter width. The transverse broad - elliptic to ovate leaf blades are very wide - 4 to 6 mm long, 5.5 to 7 mm wide, its top is occupied at the edge with a little longer, shorter muzzle middle tentacles, the underside is fine white hairs.

The one to three, sparsely populated with white hair inflorescence axes are 12.5 to 20 inches long and have a grape 10 to 20 or more flowers, the flower stalks are 3 to 12 millimeters long and stand up to maturity. The sepals are obovate, 2-3 mm long and 1 to 1.7 millimeters wide. The petals are white, with strongly pronounced midrib, obovate and 5.5 to 6.5 mm long and 3-4 mm wide.

The stamens are 2 to 3.5 mm long. The ovary is wound 0.7 to 1 millimeter long, the heyday of 1 to 1.4 mm in diameter and with three bilobed carpels. The three or four pens are pressed together in the lower part of 0.3 to 0.5 mm long and the side, then in many cases 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters bifurcated into long, flat portions, which terminate in the scars.

Distribution and location

Home of Drosera kenneallyi is the Mitchell Plateau to the Mitchell Falls in the far north of Australia, where it grows on fine sandy loam and laterite under swampy conditions, temporarily flooded. By raising and lowering the sheets, however it prevents immersion. Mostly it happens with Eucalyptus latifolia and Melaleuca leucadendron.

System

The closest related species is Drosera falconeri from which it is distinguished by the shape of the leaf blades. The specific epithet honors Kevin Kenneally, who in 1982 performed the first collections made of the species. The species belongs to the so-called " petiolaris complex", which is the section of the genus Lasiocephala.

Evidence

• Allen Lowrie: Drosera kenneallyi ( Droseraceae ), a new tropical species of carnivorous plant from the Kimberley, northern Western Australia. In: Nuytsia 10:3, 1996, pp. 419-423