Pinguicula lusitanica

Pinguicula lusitanica

Pinguicula lusitanica is a carnivorous plant species of the genus fat herbs ( Pinguicula ), section Isoloba. It was first described in 1753 by Carolus Linnaeus as a third species of the genus.

Description

Pinguicula lusitanica is a perennial plant with tempered - heterophyller habit. It grows as a basal rosette, root system consists of numerous fine roots. In contrast to most of the European species it forms for the winter from no Hibernakel. Their chromosome number is 2n = 12

The summer and winter rosette of the species consists of five to twelve oblong- ovate 0.6 to 29mm long and 3-8 mm wide green leaves that are reddish colored along their veins and strongly curled up from the side. The leaves of the winter rosette for these different smaller than the summer rosette.

Flowers

At up to eight flower stems, the plant produces April to October terminal single flowers. The plant is very fast growing, they often bloom the first year. The zygomorphic flowers are pale pink with a yellow Saftmal and self-pollinated, the scar is curved back to the dust bag. The numerous seeds that are formed in the rounded seed capsule, 0.5 to 0.65 mm long and 0.2 mm wide.

Distribution and habitat

The species is widespread on the Atlantic coastal regions of Western Europe from Scotland and the Orkney Islands to Ireland, England, France, Spain and Portugal, and occasionally on the coasts of the western Mediterranean (Morocco, Algeria, southern France ). In France, isolated areas can also be found in the interior, but they are in decline.

They settled nutrient-poor bogs and occurs often associated with the Middle Sundew ( Drosera intermedia) and the Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris ) on.

Swell

• Casper, SJ: Monograph of the genus Pinguicula, ( Bibliotheca Botanica, No. 127/128 ), 1966, Stuttgart, pp. 71-75