Drosera prostratoscaposa

Drosera prostratoscaposa is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sundew ( Drosera ). It is native to a very small area in a coastal area of Australia.

Description

The tubers are relatively large for the genus. The scaly stem is underground about 4 inches long, above ground, the plant forms a basal rosette close-fitting, stalked leaves which are later but grow to a length of up to about 4 centimeters and a width of 1.3 centimeters in the heyday still small,.

The rosette is a branched or four inflorescence stalks are formed, each carrying five to twenty-five flowers. In its heyday, this inflorescence stems are upright, crop them, however, are flat on the ground. The jasmine-scented flowers close up at night. At your approaches, ovate - lanceolate, simple or bilobed and serrated sepals are fused and up to 4 millimeters long. The obovate, obtuse at the tips but notched petals are white, 8 mm long and 4 mm wide. The stamens are 2.7 mm long, elliptical ovary 1.5 mm long at flowering time and 1.2 millimeters wide. The three pens are branched in the upper half in number, approximately finger-shaped portions, the scars from one to three-lobed. The fruit is a capsule 2.3 millimeters long.

Distribution area

The species is a local endemic to the coastal areas of the southwest of Western Australia in the Fitzgerald River National Park. The known distribution area lies at the junction of a tributary of the River and Hamersley Hamersley of Drive, 40 kilometers southwest of the South Coast Highway.

The type location extends over approximately 3 km along a road, where it forms dense stands. The substrates of the site are fine-grained black sand in the plane and a mixture of laterite, sand and quartz containing a small proportion of rock on scree slopes. The fact that there are other locations in the Fitzgerald River National Park is regarded as possible, but can not be said with certainty due to the partial inaccessibility of the park.

System

The species was discovered in 1989 by Phil husband and first described in 1990 by Allen Lowrie and asked Ergaleium in the section Erythrorhiza the subgenus. As a closely related species Drosera bulbosa and Drosera macrophylla apply.

Evidence

• Sundew Family
• Droseraceae
• Insect-eating plant