Genlisea hispidula

Hispidula Genlisea, habit

Genlisea hispidula is a carnivorous species of the genus Reuse traps ( Genlisea ), which was first described in 1904 by Otto Stapf.

Description

Genlisea hispidula is a perennial, herbaceous plant, growing in a basal rosette. The spatula-shaped, 20 to 40, rarely up to 50 mm long leaves are dark green. The numerous, located underground and forked Rhizophylle reach a length of up to 100 millimeters.

Flowers

The upright, slightly branched inflorescences are hairy bristly on the lower half and 10 to 25, rarely up to 30 cm long. Along the flower stem are scale-like leaves, the bracts are ovate - lanceolate to linear-lanceolate and 2-4 millimeters long, the shorter Brakteolen are lanceolate. They carry three to 10 flowers that occasionally bristly pedicels are 5-15 mm long.

The approach to the overgrown, bristly hairy calyx is five-lobed, lobes ovate - lanceolate, the individual to lanceolate and 2-4 millimeters long. The flowers can be pink, mauve or appear blue. The upper lip of the corolla is broadly ovate to circular, 3.5 mm tall and hairy 4 millimeters wide and the back, the lower lip is 5 mm wide and 6 mm long is slightly lobed into three segments, the 6 mm long, oblong and slightly angled spur is green to yellowish and hairy bristly at the blunt tip. The crescent-shaped filament is 1 millimeter long, the ovary occupied spherical and dense with bristly hairs. The short style bears a semicircular einlappige scar. The capsule fruits are round and have a diameter of 3 to 4 millimeters.

Dissemination

The countries of Cameroon, Central Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe can count on their native flora the Genlisea hispidula. It grows in bogs on the island of mountains and Ferricreten.

Source

  • Eberhard Fischer, Stefan Porembski, Wilhelm Barthlott: Revision Of The Genus Genlisea ( Lentibulariaceae ) in Africa And Madagascar With Notes On Ecology And phytogeography. In: Nordic Journal Of Botany. Copenhagen 20.2000,3. ISSN 0107- 055X
Asterids Carnivorous plant Stigma (botany) Monadnock
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