Byblis rorida

Byblis rorida is a carnivorous Regenbogenpflanzenart from the family of Rainbow plants plants ( Byblidaceae ). It was first described by Allen Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran in 1998 and is one of the year, northern Australia Byblisarten, which are collectively referred to as " B. liniflora complex".

Features

Byblis rorida is an annual, usually unbranched, growing, herbaceous plant, its roots are fine grained. It reaches a height of up to 30 centimeters, new, smaller plants are upright, larger are inspired by neighboring plants.

The leaves are 2-5 inches long, terete, tapering towards the end. Young leaves are almost upright, hanging with age but increasingly down and begin to wilt. From the approach to the end they are completely covered with stalked glands that secrete a sticky liquid. In addition to catching insects, they also serve the adhesion to neighboring plants and thus keep the plant upright.

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 3.5 to 4.5 mm long and 1.2 to 1.3 millimeters wide. They are densely covered with up to 1.5 mm long glandular hairs, these serve as a diagnostic feature for determining the kinds, the reverse- egg-shaped petals are inside light purple and white on the outside, 6.5 to 10 millimeters long, 4 and 4.5 mm wide and deep serrated on the outer edge. The stamens are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. Three of yellow dust bags are from 2.5 to 3 millimeters in length and the other two from 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters. The stylus is 4 to 4.5 mm long, the two-lobed stigma is papillate.

Fruit and seeds

The 3.5 to 4 mm long and 4-5 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 0.8 mm long seeds are provided with a honeycomb relief ..

Dissemination

The species can be found scattered in the north around the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It grows in nutrient-poor lateritic and sandy soils and is frequently associated with Triodia pungens and sorghum species.

Swell

• Allen Lowrie, John G. Conran: A Taxonomic Revision Of The Genus Byblis ( Byblidaceae ) in Northern Australia. In: Nuytsia. Vol 12, No 1, 1998, pp. 59-74.

• Insect-eating plant
• Rainbow plants plants
• Byblidaceae