Heliamphora elongata

Heliamphora elongata is a species in the genus of marsh pitchers ( Heliamphora ), it involves a carnivorous ( präkarnivore ) plant. The species was first described by Joachim Mink 2004.

Description

Habit

Heliamphora elongata is a perennial herbaceous plant. It grows from a branching rhizome, which leads to the formation of small clumps.

In the dark red foliage leaves of the plant is 20 to 32 cm high, at the top end diameter 3.5 to 4 centimeters wide ovate, oblique open tubes. The lower, slightly bulged part of the tubes takes on a roughly one-third of the total length of the tube, the upper cylindrical part widens only slightly. The hoses are smooth from the outside, in the upper portion of the inside covered with fine white hairs. A small, dark red to almost black colored, helmet-shaped lid, about 1 to 3 inches wide and is 1 to 2.8 inches long above the opening.

Flowers

At the end of about 50 centimeters long, hairless stem are two to five flowers on 1.5 to 3.5 cm long flower stems with four narrow, oblong- lanceolate, white to pinkish petals with a duration of three to five centimeters.

Distribution and habitat

The type can be found on two Venezuelan tepuis, the Ilu - tepui and the Tramen - Tepui at an altitude of 2600 m above sea level. NN under cool and wet conditions. It grows in marshy hollows, in which nutrient-poor substrate has accumulated on bare rock, often it is associated with Stegolepis, Xyris, Orectanthe, Bonnetia and carnivorous plants such as Drosera roraimae, roraimensis Genlisea, Utricularia quelchii and Utricularia amethystina.

Swell

• Mink, Joachim: Heliamphora elongata ( Sarraceniaceae ), A New Species From Ilu - tepui, in: Carnivorous Plant Newsletter, Volume 33, Number 4, 2004, pp. 111-116

• Pitcher plants
• Insect-eating plant
• Sarraceniaceae