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Droseraceae - Sundew family
Laundon, J.R. (1960) Droseraceae FZ 1978
Description of the family
Annual or perennial, insectivorous herbs. Stipules present or 0 (indica). Leaves in whorls or alternate, frequently in basal rosettes; lamina with stalked glands which trap small insects. Flowers in racemes, cymes or occasionally solitary, actinomorphic, hypogynous, bisexual. Sepals, petals and stamens usually 5, rarely 4-8. Petals free. Ovary superior, subspherical and glabrous, with 3-5 1-locular carpels. Styles 3 (in ours), 2-partite to the base. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Worldwide: 4 genera and 110 species, cosmopolitan. |
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Other sources of information about Droseraceae:
Flora of Mozambique: DroseraceaeGRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Droseraceae
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