Heliamphora glabra
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Heliamphora glabra is a species from the genus of the marsh jugs ( Heliamphora ), it is a carnivorous ( precarnivore ) plant. The species was originally regarded as a variety of Heliamphora heterodoxa , it was onlysold as a species against thisin 2006 .
description
Habitus
Heliamphora glabra is a perennial herbaceous plant . It grows from a branching rhizome, which leads to the formation of small colonies.
leaves
The leaves of the plant are 30 to 40 cm high, at the upper end up to 8 cm wide, diagonally opened tubes. The lower, slightly bulged part of the hose takes up a third of the entire length of the hose, the upper, tubular part widens only slightly, and at the upper end the hose opens relatively wide. Over the opening is a small, downy, hairy, signal red colored, hat-shaped "lid", about three centimeters long and one centimeter wide, which is provided with nectaries. Its function is likely to be to attract prey.
The inside of the leaf is largely smooth, only the edge of the opening is slightly hairy and there are bristles in the lowest tube area.
blossoms
At the end of an approximately 80 centimeter long, hairless stem is a single flower with four pointed, lanceolate, white to pale pink petals with a diameter of eight to ten centimeters.
distribution
The species is found on several Venezuelan tepuis southeast of the Roraima massif, possibly also in the east of the Roraimatepuis itself. It prefers full sun locations in swamps.
literature
- Joachim Nerz , Andreas Wistuba, Gert Hoogenstrijd: Heliamphora glabra, an impressive Heliamphora species from the western part of the Guiana Shield. In: The Taublatt. Issue 54, 2006, ISSN 0942-959X , pp. 58-70.