Genlisea hispidula
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Genlisea hispidula is a carnivorous species from the genus of trap traps ( Genlisea ), which was first describedby Otto Stapf in 1904 .
description
Genlisea hispidula is a perennial herbaceous plant and grows in a native rosette. The spatulate, 20 to 40, rarely up to 50 millimeters long leaves are dark green. The numerous, subterranean and forked rhizophylls reach a length of up to 100 millimeters.
blossoms
The upright, weakly branched inflorescences are hairy on the lower half and between 10 and 25, rarely up to 30 cm long. Scale- like leaves stand along the flower stalk , the bracts are ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate and 2 to 4 millimeters long, the shorter bracteoles are lanceolate. They carry three to 10 flowers, the occasionally bristly hairy flower stalks are 5 to 15 millimeters long.
The bristly hairy sepal that is overgrown at the base is five-lobed, the individual lobes ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate and 2 to 4 millimeters long. The flowers can appear pink, mauve, or blue. The upper lip of the corolla is broadly ovate to circular, 3.5 millimeters high and 4 millimeters wide and hairy on the back, the lower lip is 5 millimeters wide and 6 millimeters long, is weakly lobed into three segments, the 6 millimeter long, elongated and slightly angled spur is green to yellowish and hairy at the blunt tip. The crescent-shaped stamen is 1 millimeter long, the ovaries spherical and densely covered with bristle hair. The short stylus bears a semicircular single-lobed scar . The capsule fruits are round and have a diameter of 3 to 4 millimeters.
distribution
The countries of Cameroon , Central Africa , Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Nigeria , South Africa , Tanzania , Zambia and Zimbabwe can count the Genlisea hispidula among their native flora. It grows in bogs on Inselberg and Ferricreten .
literature
- Eberhard Fischer, Stefan Porembski, Wilhelm Barthlott : Revision of the Genus Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae) in Africa And Madagascar with Notes on Ecology and Phytogeography. In: Nordic Journal of Botany. Vol. 20, No. 3, 2000, ISSN 0107-055X , pp. 291-318, doi : 10.1111 / j.1756-1051.2000.tb00746.x .