Drosera binata

Forked Sundew

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)

Search Criteria

 

Type

Herb

Flowers

Form

Regular, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

White

 

Petal/Sepal No.

5

 

Flowering Month

1, 12

Fruit

Type       

Capsule

 

Colour

-

 

Other Features

-

Leaves

Arrangement

Basal

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Linear

 

Length    

Medium

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Unstalked               

 

Other Features

Tapered-tip, Hairy,

 

 

Oil dots/Glands

Bark

-

Habitat

Heathland