Drosera pedicellaris

Drosera pedicellaris, habitus

Drosera pedicellaris is a flowering plant in the genus Drosera. It was discovered in 1997 and described in 2002 by Allen Lowrie.

Description

The rosette growing species has a height of up to 1.5 inches and a diameter of up to 1.8 inches. Vegetative it multiplies like all dwarf Sonnentaue about breeding shed.

The up to twenty sheets are semi-erect and outward almost horizontally in the middle. The slightly hairy petioles are four to five millimeters long, 0.8 millimeters wide at the base and taper towards down to just 0.01 millimeters short of the circular, occupied with the sundew tentacles typical leaf blade, which has a diameter of about one millimeter having.

In October / November, the plant produces one to three winding of filamentary inflorescences, which are up to two inches above the plant and carry up to 20 pentamerous flowers. The petals are white, tinged with green at the base and have a length of up to 3.5 millimeters, the pollen is orange. The unusual for a dwarf sundew length of the flower stems and the stocking of the coil with thin stipules are unique features of all kinds, the ellipsoidal seeds are just half a millimeter long.

Distribution, habitat and status

From the way only two sites south-west of Geraldton in Three Springs in Western Australia are known. Where it grows on sandy soils and in society with low shrubs on heathland.

Since we still know little about any other occurrence and the species is also little known, the plant received the protection status " Priority One " for rare, endangered species.

System

Drosera pedicellaris is one of the so-called " dwarf Sonnentauen ", a large group of extremely small sundew species, which form the section Bryastrum within the genus Drosera. It is closely related to Drosera parvula.

The epithet refers to the pedicellaris distinctive long flower stalk ( pedicel = ) the Art