Genlisea margaretae
Genlisea margaretae is a carnivorous species of the genus Reuse traps ( Genlisea ). It is native to Africa and has the smallest known genome of all angiosperms.
Description
Genlisea margaretae is a perennial, herbaceous plant. The numerous, standing in a dense basal rosette, bare leaves are 20 to 30 mm long and 3-4 mm wide, spatulate and obtuse at the end. The numerous traps are 6 to 150, rarely up to 200 millimeters long. Sitting at the 10 to 35, rarely up to 50 cm tall flower stands, the six to ten violet to mauve blooms, whose lower lip usually appears yellowish.
The chromosome number is given by 2n = about 40. The species has 63.4 Mbp the smallest known genome of all angiosperms.
Dissemination
Genlisea margaretae is native to Africa (Zambia, Madagascar and Tanzania) on moss cushions in permanently damp bogs and trickled in over Sickerfluren on island mountains.
Systematics and history of research
Genlisea margaretae was first described in 1946 by John Hutchinson, it is placed in the subgenus Genlisea.
Besides Genlisae violacea and Genlisea Genlisea aurea margaretae was one of the three types, where 1998 long suspected Karnivorie the genus has been demonstrated.