Pinguicula gypsicola

Pinguicula gypsicola

Pinguicula gypsicola is a carnivorous plant in the genus of fat herbs ( Pinguicula ).

Description

The summer rosette of Pinguicula gypsicola has linear- lanceolate, finely ciliated leaves, 4 to 7, occasionally up to 13 inches long. Towards the winter it forms a Winter rose with a diameter of only two to four centimeters, consisting of numerous, tiny, almost scale-like leaves. On a up to 17 inches high growing flower stalk is a long- spurred, large, violet - purple flower that resembles a violet. Pinguicula gypsicola flourishes equally in the winter as the summer rosette.

Dissemination

Pinguicula gypsicola is a Lithophyt, which is native to wet, pure gypsum rock in Mexico. The plant is known only from two, some fifty kilometers apart locations in the state of San Luis Potosí. It prefers shady sites covered completely dry in winter and temperatures are exposed to below 0 ° C and occurs associated with other xerophytes such as Cactaceae, Agave stricta, Selaginella cuspidata, Agave striata, Dasylirion longissimum, Dodonea viscosa and Hechtia glomerata on.

System

The species was in 1911 by Townshend Stith Brandegee (* † 1843 to 1925), a California botanist first described, and is placed in the section Orcheosanthus. The specific epithet means " inhabiting gypsum " and refers to the location.