Drosera cuneifolia
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Drosera cuneifolia is a carnivorous plant belonging to the genus sundew ( Drosera ). It was described for the first time in 1781.
description
Drosera cuneifolia is a perennial herbaceous plant that forms a native rosette. Their root system consists of one or two long tap roots. The leaf rosette reaches a diameter of 6 to 8 cm. It has spatulate catch leaves with a width of up to 1.5 cm, which are slightly hairy on the underside of the stem - not on the top. Likewise, three leaf veins are usually clearly visible on the underside of the leaf . The edge tentacles are consistently about the same length.
At the end of spring, the approximately 15 cm long flower stalks are formed, they have six to twenty pink flowers . The almost 1 cm long petals are roughly the same width as they are long. The stigma of the flower is undivided.
Flowering time at the natural site is November to January.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 32.
distribution
This plant species can be found in the western Cape region of South Africa in the area of Cape Town ( Capensis ).
literature
- Anna Amelia Obermeyer: Droseraceae. In: The Flora of Southern Africa. Volume 13: Cruciferae, Capparaceae, Resedaceae, Moringaceae, Droseraceae, Roridulaceae, Podosfemaceae, Hydrostachyaceae. Botanical Research Institute - Department of Agricultural Technical Services - Republic of South Africa, Pretoria 1970, pp. 187-201.
- Robert Gibson: Drosera cuneifolia and D. admirabilis: Two rosetted sundews from The Cape Province, South Africa. In: Carnivorous Plant Newsletter. Vol. 31, No. 4, 2002, ISSN 0190-9215 , pp. 100-107 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Drosera cuneifolia at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
