Drosera madagascariensis

Flower Drosera madagascariensis

Drosera madagascariensis is a carnivorous plant in the genus of Sonnentaue (Drosera ). It was first described in 1824 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

Description

In Drosera madagascariensis is a stalk- forming, vigorous style with a clearly visible shoot axis, standing erect as a young plant, and at the age either tilts and continues to grow on the ground or anchored with their leaves in surrounding plants.

The plant reaches a height of 25 cm and is surrounded in the lower part of the stem axis of old, dead leaves that hang down. The leaves grow alternately on the stems. The petiole is 1.5 to 3 cm long and carries a 10 to 15 mm long and 7 mm wide reverse- ovate to spatulate leaf blade. The root system is poorly developed.

Flowers and fruit

The one to two weakly hairy flower stems of the plant are 20 to 40 cm high and carry 4 to 12, rarely up to 15 flowers on a two to five millimeters long flower stalk in a winding. The sepals are breitlinealisch to ovate and slightly hairy, the pink petals reverse- egg-shaped, six to twelve millimeters long and four to six millimeters wide. The capsule fruit is breitlinealisch, the seeds are spindle -shaped and up to 0.6 mm long.

Dissemination

The home of Drosera madagascariensis is the tropical Africa (Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Angola, the Zambezi, Tanganyika ) to South Africa and the eastern part of the island of Madagascar, she finds herself there in swamps, along streams and in Torfmoosmooren.

Use and risk

Drosera madagascariensis is used as a substitute for the round-leaved sundew protected in many places, which is used as a medicinal plant. Here, although plants are used for breeding, but there are also areas in Madagascar harvested. There between ten and two hundred million plants are collected for marketing purposes every year, by this depletion applies Drosera madagascariensis in Madagascar as endangered.