Drosera fulva

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

Description

In Drosera fulva is a perennial herbaceous plant that forms individual indigenous rosettes. The leaves are semi-erect to prostrate, the stems are reversed - lanceolate, 25-30 mm long, at base 0.6 to 1.2 millimeters, later widening wide to 2 to 3 mm, at the base of the leaf blade tapers down to 0, 8-1 mm, glabrous on the top and the bottom occupied isolated with white hair, the dry season both sides densely white woolly hairs. The round leaf blades are 2-3 mm long and just millimeters wide, filled to the top with small glands and on the edge with tentacles and catch the underside hairy weak, densely woolly occupied the dry season with white hair.

Bloom time is February to May. The one or two hairy inflorescence axes are 25 to 45 inches long and have a grape fifty or more flowers, the flower stems are 1 to 2 millimeters long. The sepals are inversely - ovate, densely hairy white, 3 to 3.5 mm long and 1.5 to 1.8 millimeters wide. The petals are white, rarely pink, reverse- egg-shaped and 6.5 to 9 millimeters long and 4 to 6.5 millimeters wide.

The stamens are about 3 millimeters long. The ovary is inversely egg-shaped, and 0.8 to 1 millimeter long. The 3 pens are inclusive of scars 2 millimeters long.

Dissemination

The home of Drosera fulva is Australia. There she came in the area around Darwin in sandy soils to moist levels in seepage zones and briefly flooded valleys immediately above the high water mark in front of the Northern Territory. In their area of ​​distribution is frequently and safely.

System

The species was first described in 1848 by Jules Émile Planchon, it belongs to the so-called " petiolaris complex", which is the section of the genus Lasiocephala. The closest related species Drosera Drosera brevicornis and dilatation of - petiolaris.

Evidence

  • Allen Lowrie: New species in Drosera sect. Lasiocephala ( Droseraceae ) from tropical northern Australia. In: Nuytsia 11:1, 1996, pp. 55-69
  • Sundew Family
  • Insect-eating plant
  • Droseraceae
Ovary (botany) Stigma (botany) Darwin (Northern Territory)
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