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Grouping:
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African Drosera/Dormancy type Erect form |
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Variation:
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- var. cistiflora /L. (1760)
- f. pink flower
- f. white flower
- f. white and pink flower
- f. yellow flower
- f. red flower
- f. smaller
- straggling plant
- red flower
- var. alba /Sond. (1859)
- var. exilis /Diels (1906)
- var. multiflora /Eckl. & Zeyh. (1835)
- var. speciosa /Diels (1906)
- typ. Baines /Kloof Weiner (1987)
- typ. Darling /Weiner (1987)
- typ. Malmesbury /Weiner (1987)
- typ. Scarlet /Weiner (1987)
- typ. yellow flower /Weiner (1988)
- var. violacea /Sond. (1859)
- var. zeyheri /Weiner (1985)
- f. pink flower
- f. red flower
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Synonym:
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- cistoides = cistiflora
- helianthemum =cistiflora
- pauciflora var. minor = cistiflora
- rubripetala = cistiflora
- speciosa = cistiflora
- violacea = cistiflora
- zeyheri = cistiflora
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Distribution:
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SouthAfrica Cape Area |
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Description:
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Slender, usually caulescent herbs 10-40 cm high, variable, the basal rosette absent at times. Roots 1-2, long, swollen, densely matted with roothairs. Stems (often reduced to scapes) unbranched, densely glandular pubescent. Leaves apetiolate (occasionally with an ill-defined sulcate petiole), exstipulate, dimorphous; primary leaves basal, rosulate, narrowly obovate, 12-20 (-30) mm long, base attenuate, bearing both types of tentacles; cauline leaves laxly spaced, alternate, linear to linear- lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-4 mm broad, apex acute, with some very long knob-bearing tentacles at the apex and along the upper margin and with numerous shorter ones. Inflorescence terminal, 1-several- flowered, in thin pedicels up to three cm. Calyx-lobes acute, about 9 mm. long. Petals broadly obovate, up to 2 cm. long, notched at the apex, white, yellow, mauve, pink, purple, dark red (Malmesbury district), with a dark green base. Stamens with short dark green filaments, connective rhomboid with the locules diverging. Styles divided from the base, long, patent-erect, apical stigmatic areas flabellately multifid. Capsule turbinate; seeds ovoid-ellipsoid, brown, minutely honeycombed.
Apparently plants developed different growth forms depending, possibly, on light requirements. Diels discusses this phenomenon, observed in European and Australian species, where the stems lengthen and become well developed and leafy after the dormant plants had been hidden under Sphagnum and other vegetation during the dry season. On the other hand, when light was sufficient from the start, the basal rosette enlarges but the stem remains short, develops few leaves and forms only a scape bearing 1-few apical flowers. Several varieties were established by Diels but the abundant material now available shows no sharply defined forms. Like D. trinervia, this species invades clearings, being equally at home in the fynbos vegetation and open road verges.
The taxon described by Salter as D. zeyheri and by Diels as D. pauciflora var. minor is considered to be a form of D. cistiflora. It appears in open places recently cleared or burnt. Diels' variety exilis appears to be similar. See also notes under D. pauciflora.
The species was illustrated in Burman's book, Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum on tab. 75, p. 210 (1738), under the phrase-name Drosera foliis ad caulem alternis flore amplo purpureo. Together with D. capensis, depicted on the same plate, these two species were the first Cape Droseras to be recorded and illustrated.
QUOTATION
The Flora of Southern Africa Vol. 13
A.A. Obermeyer |
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Cultivation Remark:
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African Drosera/Dormancy type |
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