Drosera capillaris

Drosera capillaris flower

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

Description

Drosera capillaris is a perennial, herbaceous plant with a diameter of two to seven centimeters.

The plant forms a rosette lying flat on the floor. The up to 24 millimeters long and five millimeters wide petioles go on up to twelve millimeters long and four millimeters wide, conversely, oval to lanceolate leaf blades. In strong sunlight the otherwise green leaves turn a red color.

Flowers

Drosera capillaris flowering and fruiting throughout the year. Per plant is one to three hairless inflorescences form with a height of up to 21 centimeters and up to fifteen flowers per inflorescence. These are available in short ( about one millimeter long ) peduncles, 1 to 1.5 millimeters long, linealischen bracts are burgundy.

The flowers are fünfzählig and large in diameter up to a centimeter. The sepals are two to four millimeters long. The petals are pink ( in English, therefore, is called the type "Pink Sundew " ), occasionally white. The seed is oblong.

Dissemination

Drosera capillaris is the most widely used Sonnentauart the Neotropics. It is found from the southeastern United States (Texas, Florida, Virginia, but also disjoint in Tennessee) over the Caribbean ( Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago) to the east coast of Central and South America (Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay).

It grows in wet pine forests in the wet sand, usually near or on rivers, forming colonies. In the U.S., they often covered together with Drosera brevifolia like a carpet large areas, even she finds herself in the company of pitcher plants, herbs fat and water hoses.

The species is listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants of 1997 as Rare ( = rare ).