Genlisea filiformis
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Genlisea filiformis is a carnivorous plant from the genus of trap traps ( Genlisea ). It occurs in South and Central America.
description
The native leaf rosette consists of a few to numerous obovate, spatulate to approximately circular leaves that are 3 to 5 millimeters long. The outer end of the leaf is round or extremely blunt, at the base it tapers to a winged, slender petiole that is at least as long as the blade.
The thread-like, but wiry and flexible inflorescence stem measures usually 8-20 centimeters, he wears a few long hairs that are staffed at the top with glands and 3 to 5 very small, egg-shaped, pointed bracts . It bears two to four flowers with slender flower stalks at its end . The calyx lobes are approximately blunt, elliptical elongated-round to lanceolate elongated-round and ciliate, the approximately 4 millimeter long crown is greenish-yellow or lemon-yellow, with a thick, very blunt spur that is only a little longer than the lips. The seeds are flattened, obovate and angular.
distribution
The plant is found in Brazil , Venezuela , Guyana , Cuba , Colombia , Belize , Bolivia , Nicaragua , Honduras and Guatemala . In 2002, a find from Mexico was first described, making the species the most northerly of all American species.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1833 by Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire . Like almost all species of the genus, it is placed in the subgenus Genlisea .
proof
- ↑ a b c Dorothy Nash Gibson: Lentibulariaceae. In: Paul C. Standley, Louis O. Williams, Dorothy Nash Gibson: Flora of Guatemala (= Field Museum of Natural History. Publication. 1187, ISSN 0097-5753 ). Volume 24, part 10, number 3/4. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL 1974, p. 316.
- ↑ Martha Olvera García, Esteban Martínez S .: Primer registro de Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae) para México. In: Acta Botánica Mexicana. No. 59, 2002, ISSN 0187-7151 , pp. 71-73 .