Drosera darwinensis

Drosera darwinensis

Drosera darwinensis is a carnivorous plant from the family of sundew plants ( Droseraceae ). It is found only in northern Australia in the Northern Territory.

Description

In Drosera darwinensis is a perennial herbaceous plant that forms individual indigenous rosettes. The leaves lie flat on the ground, the petioles are inversely lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, at base 0.7-1, later 1.5 to 3 millimeters wide, at the base of the leaf blade tapers down to 1 to 1.5 to the top and bottom with white hair. The round leaf blades are 3 to 3.5 millimeters long and as wide, filled to the top with small sessile glands and on the edge with fishing tentacles and white hairs on the underside.

Bloom time is December to April. The one or two densely woolly hairy inflorescence axes are 5 to 15 centimeters long and have a grape twelve to 24 flowers, the flower stems are 0.7 to 1.5 millimeters long. The sepals are ovate, densely covered with white hairs, 2.5 and 3 millimeters long and 1.3 to 1.8 millimeters wide. The petals are pink or white, inverted egg-shaped and about 5 millimeters long and about 3 millimeters wide.

The stamens are 2.5 millimeters long. The ovary is inversely egg-shaped and about 1 millimeter long. The three pens are inclusive of scars 1.5 millimeters long.

Dissemination

The home of Drosera darwinensis is northern Australia in the Northern Territory, where it grows in the region around Darwin on laterite on clay -sand substrate. It is common and not threatened.

System

The species was first described in 1996 by Allen Lowrie, the specific epithet refers to the home region of the type you belongs to the so-called " petiolaris complex", which is the section of the genus Lasiocephala. The closest related species is Drosera brevicornis.

Evidence

• Allen Lowrie: New species in Drosera sect. Lasiocephala ( Droseraceae ) from tropical northern Australia. In: Nuytsia 11:1, 1996, pp. 55-69