Drosera glabripes

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Drosera glabripes
Systematics
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Sundew family (Droseraceae)
Genre : Sundew ( Drosera )
Type : Drosera glabripes
Scientific name
Drosera glabripes
( Harv. ) Stone

Drosera glabripes is a carnivorous plant from the sundew family(Droseraceae). It is native to South Africa and is classified in the Drosera section of the subgenus of the same name.

description

Drosera glabripes are stem-forming, woody, perennial herbaceous plants . They grow upright from older, prostrate stems that are densely covered with old, hard, bent petioles and stipules.

The leaves are closely arranged like roof tiles, firm and splayed from the stem and covered with stiff hairs in the middle of the concave underside of the leaf.

The stipules are up to 1 centimeter in size, orange-brown, simple at the base and slit into five to seven long bristles above. The blade is inverted egg-shaped, up to 1 centimeter long and 5 millimeters wide, it has club-shaped tentacles on the edge and the underside is very hairy.

The one or two inflorescence axes arise from the leaf axils at the top of the plant, are wiry, leafless and up to 10 centimeters long, at their ends they have six to twelve large flowers that are up to 7 millimeter long peduncles . The sepals are fused, the individual lobes are up to 5 millimeters long and tapering to a point. The petals are broadly inverted-egg-shaped to wedge-shaped, reddish-purple and have a length of up to 11 millimeters.

The stamens are short, the connective rhomboidal. The stylus are divided into two parts, long and spread out, the ends of the stigmas are short fanned. The capsule fruits are flattened, rounded, the seeds are thread-shaped, broad at the beginning and tapering towards the tip, pearly patterned and 1.5 millimeters long.

distribution

The species is only found in the southwest of the Cape region from the Cape Peninsula to Bredasdrop , where it grows in the upper sections of the montane altitudes in often foggy locations.

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.