Byblis lamellata

B. lamellata in culture

B. lamellata is a carnivorous plant species of the genus rainbow plants in the family of the rainbow plants plants ( Byblidaceae ). It was first described in 2002 by Allen Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran and is one of two multi-year, Western Australia Byblis species, which are grouped together as " Byblis gigantea complex".

Features

B. lamellata is a perennial, usually unbranched growing shrub and grows from a thick and fleshy rhizome. It reaches a height of up to 60 centimeters, making it one of the largest members of the genus.

B. lamellata grows and blooms in the winter, fall over the summer their habitats dry. This time, the plants survive underground, above ground and die from driving until the first rains in the fall and again from the rhizome or aboveground shoots from.

The yellowish- green leaves are two to four inches long, straight, kidney-shaped in cross-section and ends in a thickening at the blade tip. On the surface they are hairless, but densely covered with stalked glands that secrete at the edges and the bottom of a sticky liquid.

Flowers

From leaf axils grow above the sheet approach flower stalks, which hardly differ from the leaves, however, are noticeably shorter with 15 centimeters. At their peak bloom from September to January ( summer in Australia ) terminal fivefold single flowers, only a few but at the same time.

The lance-shaped, hairy sepals are 8 to 15 millimeters long and at base 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters wide. The reverse- egg-shaped petals are 15-20 mm long and up to 15 millimeters wide and serrated on the outer edge. They are light to dark purple, very rarely found white or cream-colored flowering specimens. The stamens are 2.5 to 3.5 mm, the anthers 5-6 mm long and yellow with a brown tip. The white pen is 7-9 millimeters long.

B. lamellata are their pollen freely only by the sound frequency of an approaching pollinator.

Fruit and seeds

The 5 to 7 mm long and 3.5 to 4 millimeters wide seed capsule is broadly ovate and zweifächrig, by desiccation she tears gradually, so that the seeds contained fall to the ground. The black, 1 to 1.8 mm long seeds are grooved lamellar. The species is pyrophil, the sprouting of the seed is lifted only by substances in the smoke of the annual bush fires.

Distribution and habitat

The species has a small distribution area in Western Australia, it is endemic to Eneabba, about 100 kilometers north of Perth. It grows in heathland or white sand.

System

B. lamellata was separated in 2002 as a separate species of Byblis gigantea. Was mainly due to differences in seed form; while the seeds of B. gigantea are longitudinally furrowed with clearly protruding surveys, the furrowed lamellarly of B. lamellata. As a further diagnostic features, the disjunct distribution areas, the different re- sprouting and varying site conditions, Byblis gigantea lamellata serve preferred drier habitats than Byblis.

Swell

• John G. Conran, Allen Lowrie, Jessica Moyle - Croft: A Revision Of Byblis ( Byblidaceae ) in South - Western Australia, in: Nuytsia 15 ( 1) :11- 19, 2002