Drosera alba
Phill. (1913)
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Grouping:
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African Drosera/Dormancy type |
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Distribution:
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South Africa-Western Cape-Northern of Westcoast |
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Description:
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Slender small herbs with several short, swollen roots. Leaves apetiolate, exstipulate, dimorphous, laxly arranged, primary leaves rosulate, spreading flat on the ground, oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, with flattened marginal and knob-shaped tentacles; secondary leaves erect, narrowly linear, c. 5 cm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, apex obtuse, with long (up to 5 mm.) Knob-shaped tentacles only, aggregated above the basal rosette. Inflorescence with a central, leafless slender scape up to 13 cm.ong, 1-several-flowered; pedicels up to 2 cm. long. Calyx-lobes ovate, 3 mm. long. Petals broadly obovate, 7-10 mm. long, white or mauve. Stamens short, with the connective rhomboid. Styles divided from the base with the stigmatic apices flabellately multifid or rarely remaining fused (when immature).
QUOTATION
The Flora of Southern Africa Vol. 13
A.A. Obermeyer |
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Remark:
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It is difficult to care that Dormancy season. |
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