Byblis liniflora

B. liniflora

B. liniflora is a carnivorous Regenbogenpflanzenart from the family of Rainbow plants plants ( Byblidaceae ). It was first described in 1808 by Richard Anthony Salisbury, making it the oldest known species of the genus. It belongs to the year, northern Australia Byblisarten, referred to by their collectively, the " B. liniflora complex".

Features

B. liniflora is an annual, usually unbranched, growing, herbaceous plant, its roots are fine grained. It grows upright and reaches a height of up to 15 centimeters.

The leaves are up to 8 inches long, terete and taper towards the end where they end up in a small thickening. Young leaves are almost upright, hanging with age but increasingly reduced. From the approach to the end they are completely covered with stalked glands that secrete a sticky liquid and are used to catch and digest insects. In 2005, after a long discussion, the Karnivorie the plant occupied.

Flowers

For some leaf axils grow above the sheet approach flower stalks, which hardly differ from the leaves. At their peak bloom from January to May ( in the Australian summer) terminal fivefold single flowers, only a few but at the same time.

The lanceolate sepals are up to 4 mm long, occupied up to 1.3 millimeters wide and with glandular hairs. The reverse- egg-shaped petals are pale purple, 5-8 mm long, 3.5 mm wide and notched on the outer edge. The white stamens are up to 2 mm long. Which, as well as pollen, yellow anthers are 1.5 mm long. The shorter in relation to the stamen anthers are considered diagnostic feature for differentiation of B. filifolia. The stylus is 3.5 millimeters long.

Fruit and seeds

The up to 4 mm long and 7 mm wide seed capsule is broadly ovate and zweifächrig, by drying it tears on gradually, so that the seeds contained fall to the ground ( Barochorie ). The black, 0.7 to 0.9 mm long seeds are provided with a honeycomb relief.

Dissemination

The species is found in Australia in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It grows in nutrient- poor sandy soils alongside seasonally wet areas.

Swell

• Lowrie, Allen: Carnivorous Plants of Australia - Vol 3, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1998