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Accession Data:

Drosera aliciae R. Hamet

  • subg. Drosera sect. Drosera

  • Common Name: Alice Sundew
  • Family: Droseraceae Salisb.

  • Country of Origin: Constantia Nek, Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Habitat: Plants growing in seeps on vertical sandstone faces

  • Description: Small plants with tufted, compact rosettes and a few fairly thin, long roots. Leaves apetiolate; stipules ovate, 3-cleft, up to 5 mm. long, the central lobe lanceolate, the outer linear-setaceous; the c. 30 leaves often reddish, similar in size, compactly arranged, the old leaves forming a thick mat below; lamina obcuneate to spathulate, up to 25 mm. long and 7 mm. broad near the obtuse to truncate apex, base cuneate, bearing both types of tentacles; lower surface appressed-pubescent. Inflorescence with the base of each scape exserted horizontally from the leafs rosette, subsequently erect, 15-40 cm. tall-firm, bearing 2-12 secund flowers; pedicel, up to 8 mm. long. Calyx-lobes c. 5 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals broadly obovate-cuneate, c. 10 mm. long purple. Stamens with the filaments flattened and the connective dilated. Styles forked from the base, the branches shortly 2-3-fid and dilated at the stigmatic apex. Capsule ovoid; seeds fusiform, with the testa extended on both sides.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200500078
  • Source: Matt Opel
  • Provenance: Constantia Nek, Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa (M.R. Opel 200)
  • Accession Date: 09-07-2005
  • Bench: 2310 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 07-21-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Droseraceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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2024
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References (internal):

  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries
  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • Accessions with Embedded Video Files
  • Scavenger Hunt - Grades 9-12 (generic)
  • ECE 2019 - Scavenger Hunt
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Cape Provinces

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 24 February 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 24 February 2015.
  3. Drosera aliciae at PlantzAfrica. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.

data regenerated on Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:51:04 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Drosera aliciae

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Current Accessions in the Droseraceae

  • Aldrovanda vesiculosa W/C
  • Dionaea muscipula
  • Drosera aliciae W/C
  • Drosera auriculata
  • Drosera binata
  • Drosera binata W/C
  • Drosera binata var. multifida extrema
  • Drosera callistos
  • Drosera capensis W/C
  • Drosera capillaris W/C
  • Drosera cuneifolia
  • Drosera dielsiana
  • Drosera filiformis var. filiformis W/C
  • Drosera filiformis var. tracyi
  • Drosera hartmeyerorum
  • Drosera macrantha
  • Drosera pygmaea W/C
  • Drosera ramellosa
  • Drosera regia W/C
  • Drosera spatulata ssp. lovellae W/C
  • Drosera venusta
  • Drosera x legrandii
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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