Genlisea margaretae

Genlisea margaretae
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Water hose family (Lentibulariaceae)
Genre :	Traps ( Genlisea )
Type :	Genlisea margaretae
Scientific name
	Genlisea margaretae
	Hutch.

Genlisea margaretae is a carnivorous species from the genus of trap traps ( Genlisea ). It is native to Africa and has the smallest known genome of any bedspread.

description

Genlisea margaretae is a perennial herbaceous plant . The numerous, bare leaves standing in a dense, native rosette are 20 to 30 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide, spatulate and blunt at the end. The numerous traps are 6 to 150, rarely up to 200 millimeters long. On the 10 to 35, rarely up to 50 cm high inflorescences, there are six to ten purple to mauve flowers , the lower lip of which usually appears yellowish.

The number of chromosomes is given as 2n = about 40. At 63.4 Mbp, the species has the smallest known genome of all bedspreads .

distribution

Genlisea margaretae is native to Africa ( Zambia , Madagascar and Tanzania ) on moss cushions in permanently moist moors and in trickled seepage on island mountains .

Systematics and research history

Genlisea margaretae was first described by John Hutchinson in 1946 , it is placed in the subgenus Genlisea .

In addition to Genlisae violacea and Genlisea aurea , Genlisea margaretae was one of the three species in which the long suspected carnivory of the genus was detected in 1998 .

proof

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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 .
↑ Johann Greilhuber, Thomas Borsch, Kai Müller, Andreas Worberg, Stefan Porembski, Wilhelm Barthlott: Smallest angiosperm genome Found in Lentibulariaceae, with Chromosomes of Bacterial size. In: Plant Biology. Vol. 8, No. 6, 2006, pp. 770-777, doi : 10.1055 / s-2006-924101 .
^ Wilhelm Barthlott, Stefan Porembski, Eberhard Fischer, Björn Gemmel: First protozoa-trapping plant found. In: Nature . Vol. 392, No. 6675, 1998, p. 447, doi : 10.1038 / 33037 .

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Photos of the flower and the leaf rosette

[rev-1] 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 .

[gen-2] Johann Greilhuber, Thomas Borsch, Kai Müller, Andreas Worberg, Stefan Porembski, Wilhelm Barthlott: Smallest angiosperm genome Found in Lentibulariaceae, with Chromosomes of Bacterial size. In: Plant Biology. Vol. 8, No. 6, 2006, pp. 770-777, doi : 10.1055 / s-2006-924101 .

[1st-3] Wilhelm Barthlott, Stefan Porembski, Eberhard Fischer, Björn Gemmel: First protozoa-trapping plant found. In: Nature . Vol. 392, No. 6675, 1998, p. 447, doi : 10.1038 / 33037 .