Byblis pilbarana
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Byblis pilbarana is a carnivorous plant from the rainbow plant family( Byblidaceae ). It is a relatively newly discovered species that wasfirst describedby Allen Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran in 2012.
Vegetative characteristics
Habitus
Byblis pilbarana lives as a summer manual . It grows single-shoot, unbranched and half to straight upright. The plant reaches a height of 20-25 cm. Their roots are delicate and hair-like.
leaves
The leaves are stalk-like and all around covered with stalked secretory glands. They are either at right angles from the stem or are directed slightly to strongly upwards.
blossoms
The flowers of the plants stand individually at the end of long-stemmed inflorescences, which are modeled on the leaves and are also gloomy. They are five-fold, mauve and, fascinatingly, always point straight up. The flowers only release their pollen through the sound frequency of an approaching pollinator (so-called vibration pollination ); in the natural habitat this is usually bees and hover flies . The shape, color and size of the flowers is thought to be an imitation of the flowers of certain fringed lilies ( Thysanotus ). The genus Thysanotus is also native to Australia and many species thrive in the same natural habitats as the rainbow plants. And the flowers of fringed lilies are also fertilized by vibration pollination.
distribution
Byblis pilbarana mainly grows in the Pilbara province in northwest Australia . It thrives on so-called hummocks , which are rich in spiked grass . The preferred soils are permanently moist, heavily sanded and granite-containing .
Danger
Byblis pilbarana is currently classified as “not at risk” ( least concern ).
Systematics
Like all Byblis species, Byb belongs . pilbarana of the Byblidacea family from the order of the Lamiales . Its closest related sister species is Byb. rorida . Byb. pilbarana is assigned to the Liniflora complex .
etymology
The scientific generic name refers to the Greek spring nymph Byblis , who is unhappy in love with her twin brother Kaunos . When she is rejected by him, she literally flows into countless, shimmering tears. The strongly iridescent droplets of secretion from the plant are said to remind of her tears. The species name goes back to the province of Pilbara, from which the species comes.
literature
- Allen Lowrie: Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 1 . Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole (UK) 2013, ISBN 978-1908787118 .
- Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press, Boca Raton (FL) 1999, ISBN 0849326737 .
- Aaron Ellison, Lubomír Adamec: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution . Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK) 2017, ISBN 0191085391 .
- Todd Erickson, Russell Barrett, David Merritt, Kingsley Dixon: Pilbara Seed Atlas and Field Guide: Plant Restoration in Australia's Arid Northwest . Csiro Publishing, 2016, ISBN 9781486305544 .
Web links
- Byblis pilbarana in the Red List of Endangered Plant Species (English); last accessed on August 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Aaron Ellison, Lubomír Adamec: Carnivorous Plants , pp. 132-134.
- ↑ a b c Allen Lowrie: Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 1 . Pp. 116-118.
- ↑ a b Byblis pilbarana on iucnlist.org (English); last accessed on August 28, 2018
- ↑ Todd Erickson, Russell Barrett, David Merritt, Kingsley Dixon: Pilbara Seed Atlas and Field Guide . P. 291.
- ^ Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names , p. 381.
- ↑ Roland Granobs: Studies on the representation of Roman history in Ovid's Metamorphoses (= studies on classical philology , 108th volume). P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3631319533 , p. 74.