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Accession Data:

Byblis liniflora Salisb.

  • Common Name: Rainbow Plant
  • Family: Byblidaceae Domin

  • Country of Origin: northern Australia, New Guinea

  • Description: One of a few genera of flowering plants requiring 'buzz pollination' by bees.
  • Culture: prefers a little drier soil than other CP's - grow in a deeper pot in a 50:50 sand:peat mix. Grows best with tropical conditions and uniformly damp, but not waterlogged soils.
    Dry summer dormancy in its native habitat, but this dry period does not appear to be required in cultivation.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200201858
  • Source: Marcia Kirinus - Duke
  • Provenance: Rcvd from Marcia Kirinus at AERGC Annual Meeting - Duke# 02-025
  • Accession Date: 07-29-2002
  • Bench: 2309 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 07-16-2024
  • Restrictions:
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Byblidaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Carnivorous Plants
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New Guinea / Northern Territory / Queensland / Western Australia

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 07, 2017.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, September 07, 2017.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #02 (original) by No machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.0 de], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.

data regenerated on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:24:06 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Byblis liniflora

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Current Accessions in the Byblidaceae

  • Byblis gigantea
  • Byblis liniflora
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