Drosera aliciae
R. Hamet (1905)
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Grouping:
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休眠型アフリカン・ドロセラ |
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Variation:
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- typ. / R.Hamet (1905)
- Pale / Weiner (1983)
- Silvermine / Weiner (1987)
- "f. green leaves"
- "f. yellow-green leaves"
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Synonym:
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- curviscapa = aliciae
- curviscapa var. esterhuysenae = aliciae
- esterhuysenae = aliciae
- sp. 'Plains Form' = aliciae
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Distribution:
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South Africa - Western Cape - Cape area,Overberg,Gardenroot,KleinKaroo,Winland. |
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Description:
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Small plants with tufted, compact rosettes and a few fairly thin, long roots. Leaves apetiolate; stipules ovate, 3-cleft, up to 5 mm. long, the central lobe lanceolate, the outer linear-setaceous; the c. 30 leaves often reddish, similar in size, compactly arranged, the old leaves forming a thick mat below; lamina obcuneate to spathulate, up to 25 mm. long and 7 mm. broad near the obtuse to truncate apex, base cuneate, bearing both types of tentacles; lower surface appressed-pubescent. Inflorescence with the base of each scape exserted horizontally from the leafs rosette, subsequently erect, 15-40 cm. tall-firm, bearing 2-12 secund flowers; pedicel, up to 8 mm. long. Calyx-lobes c. 5 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals broadly obovate-cuneate, c. 10 mm. long purple. Stamens with the filaments flattened and the connective dilated. Styles forked from the base, the branches shortly 2-3-fid and dilated at the stigmatic apex. Capsule ovoid; seeds fusiform, with the testa extended on both sides.
Common in the South-western Cape, extending to the eastern Cape. A marsh plant which is also found in damp peaty areas. Flowering December-January. |
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