Drosera pauciflora Banks ex Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Droseraceae > Drosera

Characteristics

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.
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Tufted perennial to 20 cm. Leaves radical, obovate, exstipulate. Flowers few in a subcorymbose cyme, large, pink or mauve with dark centre, stigmas multifid.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 7-9
Soil texture 3-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
Germination luminosity light
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Images

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Distribution

Drosera pauciflora world distribution map, present in Botswana, Sri Lanka, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:321925-1
WFO ID wfo-0000946103
COL ID 6DKHJ
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Synonyms

Drosera albiflora Drosera pauciflora Drosera grandiflora Drosera pauciflora var. leucantha