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GroupingF
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African Drosera/Dormancy type |
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Variation:
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- var. typica /Banks ex DC. (1824)
- var. acaulis /Sond. (1859)
- var. leucantha /Diels (1906)
- "var. white flower"
- "var. yellow flower"
- "var. pink flower"
- "var. pink flower, short stem"
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Synonym:
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- atrostyla = pauciflora
- grandiflora = pauciflora
- pauciflora var. minor = cistiflora
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Distribution:
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SouthAfrica-WesternCape |
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Description:
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Plants forming tufted, compact rosettes with 1-few, fairly short, swollen roots. Leaves apetiolate, exstipulate; lamina spreading, narrowly obovate, up to 25 mm. long and 8 mm. broad above, attenuated towards the base, bearing both types of tentacles. Inflorescence with 1-3 large flowers; scape leafless, erect, up to 20 cm. long. Calyx-lobes ovate, up to 1 cm. long. Petals broadly obovate, up to 3 cm. long, pink or mauve with the base deep olive green. Stamens short with the filaments somewhat dilated above, connective rhomboidal with the locules diverging at the base. Styles bifid from the base with the stigmatic apex flabellately divided (fused when immature). Capsule and seed not seen.
QUOTATION
The Flora of Southern Africa Vol. 13
A.A. Obermeyer |
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