Family: Droseraceae
Plant: A small erect carnivorous herb up to 50cm high with forked hairy leaves.
Flowers: Small terminal clusters of 15-30 white spreading 5-petalled flowers about 25mm across with orange-tipped stamens.
Flowering: December-January.
Fruit: Capsule.
Leaves: Erect, narrow linear, 6-16cm long and 2-3mm wide branching leaves covered in glistening reddish glandular hairs on the upper surface. The leaves are usually forked one or more times and rise from the base of the plant.
Habitat: In sandy heathland on creek banks and rock faces in wet, sunny situations.
Features: Dark reddish, glistening, hairy and much branched leaves
Name:
Drosera From Greek = dewy (referring to the clear, sticky drops of liquid on its hair glands)
binata From Latin = 2-fold (referring to its forked, hairy leaves)
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
- |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Basal |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip, Hairy, |
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Oil dots/Glands |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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