Drosera huegelii

Drosera huegelii is a carnivorous plant in the genus of Sonnentaue (Drosera ) and was first described in 1837 by Stephan Ladislaus finite.

Description

Drosera huegelii is an erect, hairless, up to 45 cm tall plant, often supported on nearby plants. At the lower part of the stem axis, there are some small, pfriemförmige bracts. The catch 10 to 20 sheets distributed at the upper end of the upright stem axis.

The leaf blades are very wide like grapes, hanging down, 5 to 8 mm in diameter, deeply concave and 4 to 6 mm long. Longer tentacles glands are located along the edge. Smaller tentacles glands inside. The petioles are slender, tapering and 10 to 15 mm long.

Bloom time is from June to September. The rispenförmige inflorescence sits at the top of the plant and consists of 3 to 12 creamy white flowers on 4 to 20 mm long, glabrous pedicels. The pfriemförmigen bracteoles are close to the axils of the flower stems. The sepals are green, ovate, 5 mm long and 2 mm wide. The edges and the tips are fringed and studded with narrow pfriemförmigen approaches that are crowned with a small, 1.3 mm long, reddish gland. The surface is black dotted. The petals are obovate, 10 mm long and 5 mm wide with clipped and serrated tips. The 5 stamens are 2 mm long. The stamens are white, the white anthers and the pollen is yellow. The ovary is green, obovate, depressed, 1.5 mm in diameter and 1 mm long. The 3 pens are white, 0.5 mm long and form the basis of a kind thickened column in the lower half. The upper half widens to three times the thickness of the column in many easily shared segments. The scars are white, emarginate and form a compact accumulation at the end of each pen.

The tuber is white, spherical, has a diameter of about 10 mm and is wrapped in a papery sheath. It is located on a 5 cm long vertical runners. Like all so-called " Knollendrosera " it contracts during periods of high temperatures and relative drought in these tuber back and survived underground.

Distribution, habitat and status

The species is endemic to the area in Albany and Augusta in the south west of Australia. It thrives there on the edges of swamps and winter wet depressions on sandy soils that dry out in summer.

System

Drosera huegelii belongs to the subgenus Ergaleium, Section Ergaleium, so the climbing Knollendrosera. This species is easily recognizable by the deep concave, bell- shaped catching leaves.

Swell

• Allen Lowrie: Carnivorous Plants of Australia, Vol 1, Nedlands, 1987, p 32

• Sundew Family
• Insect-eating plant
• Droseraceae