Drosera cistiflora

Drosera cistiflora, illustration.

Drosera cistiflora is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sundew ( Drosera ). It is native to South Africa and was first described in 1760 by Carl Linnaeus. Drosera capensis addition she was the first Sonnentauart the Capensis described.

Description

Drosera cistiflora are herbaceous plants with a plant height of 10 to 40 centimeters and one or two long, swollen roots, densely covered with root hairs. The basal rosette is missing at times when the plants form long, unbranched and densely occupied with glandular hairs stems.

The leaves are nebenblattlos, mostly sessile and dimorphic. The leaves of the rosette close to the ground are narrow reverse- ovate, 1.2 to 2, rarely to 3 inches long, tapering wedge-shaped at the base. The leaves are alternate on the stem arranged, linear to linear - lanceolate, 2-4 cm long and pointed at the end.

The inflorescence is terminal, one to mehrblütig, the thin flower stalks are up to 3 inches long. The sepals are fused, the individual lobes are up to 9 millimeters long and pointed. The petals are broad reverse- egg-shaped, white, pink, yellow, dark red or purple, dark green at the base, notched at the tip and have a length of up to 2 centimeters.

The short stamens are dark green, the connective rhombic. The pens are bifurcated from the roots, long, bent upwards, divided the scars fächrig. The fruit capsule is wound, the seeds ovate -elliptic, brown and tiny, with dimpled surface coated.

Dissemination

The species is native to South Africa, widely distributed from Namaqualand to Port Elizabeth, it grows there in the fynbos on slopes and plateaus at sandy sites or as a pioneer species on disturbed sites.

Evidence

• A. A. Obermeyer: Droseraceae, in: The Flora of Southern Africa, 13: 201, 1970