Drosera aliciae

Drosera aliciae, inflorescence

Drosera aliciae is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sundew ( Drosera ).

Description

Drosera aliciae has a compact, earthy, dense rosette and measures about 5-6 cm in diameter. At the age the plant forms a trunk, can shoot from the side more rosettes. The plants have a single, weakly branched only in the lower half, up to 10 cm long taproot.

The 30 sessile leaves are up to 1.2 cm wide and (stretched ) and hairy on its underside to 3 cm long and 7 mm wide. The leaves of a plant are of very regular same size, shape and color.

With strong sunlight, the leaves turn a deep red rapidly, presumably to increase their attractiveness for prey. The stipules are ovate, up to 5 mm long and divided into three parts.

Flowers and Fruit

D. aliciae flowers in season from December to January. The upright inflorescence can be 15 to 40 cm high, at its end, there are two to twelve arranged in a one- winding, only ever open one day autogamous single flowers. The flower stems are up to 8 mm, the broad - ovate sepals to 5 mm long. The purple, wide union, reverse- egg-shaped Kronblätterer are up to 10 mm long, the stamens are flattened. The stylus has been divided two or three times from the base to the scar is widened at its end point.

The capsule fruits are ovoid and contain numerous fine, elongated spindle-shaped seeds whose shell is extended toward both ends and is between 0.5 and 0.6 mm long and 0.1 mm wide at most.

Dissemination

D. aliciae is home from the southwest to the east of South Africa, it is a Florenelement the capensis. She appreciates full sun, wet sites with sandy soils, but is also found on peat.

System

The species is closely related to some other species, which it clearly resembles, such as Drosera slackii, dielsiana Drosera, Drosera Drosera natalensis and esterhuysenae.

Use

The simple multiplication and undemanding culture makes D. aliciae as an ornamental plant for commercially most significant addition to the Cape sundew sundew.