Pinguicula laxifolia

Summer rosette of Pinguicula laxifolia

Pinguicula laxifolia is a carnivorous plant species of the genus fat herbs ( Pinguicula ) and the only member of the Section Orchidioides. It was first described in 1995 by Hans Luhrs based on collections made in 1969.

Description

Pinguicula laxifolia is a perennial, herbaceous plant that belongs to the tropical - heterophyllous growth habit type and accordingly forms a summer and a winter rosette, both are down to earth. The root system consists of numerous white, thin and unbranched roots.

The casual summer rosette consists of drooping, elliptical to lanceolate wrong, leaves together, which from 4 to 6.8 inches long and 6 to 12 mm wide, the petiole accounts for around one third of the length of. The drooping leaves are unusual in that the majority of species of the genus is characterized by stiff, almost succulent -looking leaves.

In the dry winter Pinguicula laxifolia forms a tight winter rosette of up to seventeen short, inverted - ovate to spatulate, not carnivorous leaves with a length from 1 to 1.7 centimeters and a width of 1.5 to 4 millimeters.

Pinguicula laxifolia blooms from February to March, the flowers are pink to pale purple, with a white Saftmal and darker purple markings.

Distribution and habitat

Pinguicula laxifolia is known only from its remote Typort in " El Cielo " cloud forest Biosphere Reserve in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Here it grows on heavily shaded, vertical rock walls to a height of 1920-2040 m. ü. NN. Due to its extremely limited distribution is about the way little known.

Swell

• Hans Luhrs: New additions to the genus Pinguicula ( Lentibulariaceae ) of Mexico. In: Phytologia. Volume 79, Number 2, 1995, pp. 114-122 ( online (PDF) ).