Drosera pedicellaris
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| Drosera pedicellaris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Droseraceae |
| Genus: | Drosera |
| Subgenus: | Drosera subg. Bryastrum |
| Section: | Drosera sect. Lamprolepis |
| Species: | D. pedicellaris |
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| Drosera pedicellaris | |
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| Range of D. pedicellaris in the wild. | |
Drosera pedicellaris is a pygmy species of the sundew genus (Drosera).[1][2] It was discovered in 1997 and described in 2002 by Allen Lowrie.[2] It is endemic to Western Australia.[1][3]
Leaves
The plant forms a ground-hugging open rosette, 1–1.8 cm (0.39–0.71 in) in diameter. Like all pygmy sundews, it is able to reproduce asexually by producing gemmae in autumn.[2]
The plant has up to twenty active leaves, which are first semi-erect and then, when older, almost horizontal at the rosette's margin. The slightly hairy petioles are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and 0.8 mm (0.031 in) wide at the base and narrowing to 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) width before the lamina. The lamina is suborbicular and has a diameter of about one millimetre.[2]
Inflorescence
Flowering takes place in October–November when the plant produces one to three cymes with thin bracteoles on filiform inflorescences, rising up to 5.5 cm (2.2 in) high and bearing up to twenty flowers, or even more. These have five white petals with a green section at the base, each up to 3.5 millimetres long. The pollen is orange. The flowers have unusually long pedicels. The ellipsoid seeds are 0.4–0.5 mm (0.016–0.020 in) long.[2]
