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Drosera anglica

Huds. (1778)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Droseraceae Genus: Drosera

mikinalo, sundew

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small acaulescent perennial herbs from short rhizomes.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Usually basal, sometimes cauline and alternate. Blades linear–oblanceolate, 1.5–10 cm long, (0.2–)0.3–0.7 cm wide. The blade either an active trap that closes when touched or covered with mucilage–tipped tentacle hairs that contain irritable compounds to which insects adhere. Surfaces covered with long, glandular, tentacle hairs with swollen reddish heads that secrete a sticky glistening fluid to which flies and other insects adhere when contact is made. Petioles 0.8–8 cm long. Stipules absent or dry and membranous and adnate to base of petiole.

Flowers: Flowers usually in helicoid cymes, rarely racemose or solitary; flowers 2–6 on scapes 6–18 cm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic; open for only a short time, sometimes cleistogamous. Calyx of (4)5(–8) sepals; sepals ± connate at base, imbricate, persistent, 3.5–6 mm long. Petals as many as sepals, distinct, convolute, white, 4–7 mm long. Stamens (4)5(10–20), distinct or connate at base; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Pollen shed in tetrads. Ovary superior, 3(–5)-carpellate, 1-celled, parietal placentation; ovules numerous, anatropous; styles (1)3–5, distinct, often branched; styles (3)4–5, distinct, often branched; stigmas as many as style tips.

Fruit: Fruit a loculicidal capsules; capsules slightly exceeding the calyx; 5–7 mm long; dehiscing by as many valves as styles. Seeds with a short; straight; basal embryo embedded in starchy endosperm; dark brown; irregularly fusiform; ca. 1.2 mm long; the surface longitudinally striate.

Ploidy: 2n = 40

Habitat: Common in bogs.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Indigenous

Island Status

Kaua'i Indigenous

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Angl., ed. 2: 135 (1778)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:583 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Drosera anglica Kauai Preserved_Specimen Brodie, A. 4060 Kauai BISH
2 Drosera anglica Kauluwehi Swamp Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5136 Kauai BISH 1909-09-08
3 Drosera anglica Waialeale, just below cave Preserved_Specimen Arneman, G.F. 112 Kauai BISH 1947-07-01
4 Drosera anglica Kauai Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1916-10-16
5 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp: along Alakai Swamp Trail; Bogs Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 1517 Kauai BISH 1956-12-27
6 Drosera anglica Kaholuamanu Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH
7 Drosera anglica Kaholuamonu behind Waimea Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 416 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
8 Drosera anglica Waialeale Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1911-10-20
9 Drosera anglica Kauai Preserved_Specimen Christophersen, E. Kauai BISH 1925-03-01
10 Drosera anglica Wahiawa Swamp Swamp Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH
11 Drosera anglica Waimea Drainage Basin, West Side Alakai Swamp Swamp Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 878 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
12 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp In all bogs, in wet spots or in moss cushions in the drier spots. Preserved_Specimen Rosular herb, 2 - l2 cm. high. Leaves gdreen, olive yellow, or red, with red sticky hairs. Petioles red, green or olive yellow. Peduncle carmine in lower parts, pinkish in higher parts. Yellow towards top. Calyx light green. Flowers white anthers yellow, capsule brown. van Royen, P. 11713 Kauai BISH 1977-09-01
13 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp Moss Preserved_Specimen Huber, H.F.J. 2 Kauai BISH 1964-08-21
14 Drosera anglica Waialeale Summitr Wet, soft ground, with sedges. Preserved_Specimen Plant reddish, flower white Kores, P.J. 148 Kauai BISH 1979-09-02
15 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp Trail in the open mire, 3rd bog along the trail Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 166 Kauai BISH 1983-08-16
16 Drosera anglica Swamp above Wahiawa open bog Preserved_Specimen MacDaniels, L.H. 601 Kauai BISH 1927-02-08
17 Drosera anglica Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve. Alaka Swamp Trail Open boggy area Preserved_Specimen Abundant. Calyx green; petals white; filaments white and anthers light yellow. Crosby, M.R. 2003 Kauai BISH 1964-08-12
18 Drosera anglica Wahaiawa Swamp Swamp Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 168 Kauai BISH 1909-08-01
19 Drosera anglica Wahiawa Bog Bob Preserved_Specimen Flowering- fls. white Stone, B.C. 3735 Kauai BISH 1961-08-11
20 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp Bog Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21653 Kauai BISH 1952-01-19
21 Drosera anglica Hanalei District, NE Alakai, forest, bogs, and drainages. Terrestrial in bogs. Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest, bogs and riparian habitat w/ Broussaisia arguta, Dubautia paleata, Labordia waialealae, L. pumila, Polyscias waialealae, Vaccinium calycinum, Pipturus ruber, Deschampsia nubigena, Machaerina angustifolia, Melicope clusiifolia Preserved_Specimen Perennial herb, short rhizomes spreading and leaves low-matting w/ swollen glandular reddish hairs, vegetative Wood, K.R. 19277 Kauai BISH 2023-01-13
22 Drosera anglica Alakai, Lehua Makanoe bog bog Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2902 Kauai BISH 1938-08-13
23 Drosera anglica Waimea, Na Pali-kona forest reserve, Alakai Swamp trail, Kalaaukipapaaola Swamp Preserved_Specimen Chock, A.K. 1166 Kauai BISH 1953-09-04
24 Drosera anglica Waimea Bog Bog Preserved_Specimen Woolford, H.A. 417 Kauai BISH 1956-12-28
25 Drosera anglica N.W.end of Alakai Swamp; NA Pali-Kona Forest Reserve Open bog Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 10735 Kauai BISH 1930-12-27
26 Drosera anglica Waimea, Na Pali-kona forest reserve, Alakai Swamp trail, Kalaaukipapaaola Swamp Preserved_Specimen Chock, A.K. 1173 Kauai BISH 1953-09-04
27 Drosera anglica Wahiawa, Kahili Bog Open bog, among moss Preserved_Specimen WQhite flowers, glandular hairs of leaf red St.John, H. 13574 Kauai BISH 1933-12-24
28 Drosera anglica Kanaele Swamp (Wahiawa Bog) In trail Swamp Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 4984 Kauai BISH 1983-08-27
29 Drosera anglica Waimea District. Waimea AHU Tr 2(10); Alakai Swamp Wet open bog with scattered native shrubs Preserved_Specimen Higashino, P.K. 9634 Kauai BISH 1981-05-12
30 Drosera anglica Kauuluwehi swamp Swamp Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5139 Kauai BISH 1909-09-08
31 Drosera anglica Between Kokee and Puu o Kila, Waimea; Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve Small open bog Preserved_Specimen flowers white St.John, H. 19989 Kauai BISH 1939-02-11
32 Drosera anglica Koloa District, Lihue-Koloa Forest Reserve. Wahiawa Bog Wahiawa Bog; low altitude bog with Dicranopteris, Oreobolus, and dwarf shrubs including Metrosideros, Pelea, and Chamaesyce Preserved_Specimen Insectivorous herb with red glandular hairs on leaves, corolla white. Lorence, D.H. 5166 Kauai BISH 1987-04-10
33 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp, Halemanu Swamp Preserved_Specimen Flycatcher Knudsen, V. Kauai BISH 1917-01-01
34 Drosera anglica Alakai Swamp, north or Kilohana, near Wainiha Rim; T.N.C. survey of Hono O Napali N.A.R., transect 11, ca Open boggy areas. Metrosideros bogs & Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest with Cibotium, Vaccinium, Myrsine, Rhynchospora, Viola, Melicope, Styphelia, Stenogyne, Drosera, Lagenifera, Dubautia paleata, Labordia, Coprosma. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 9201 Kauai BISH 1988-05-19
35 Drosera anglica Waimea District: Alakai Swamp. Along trail between Pihea and Kilohana Wet open bog Preserved_Specimen Lammers, T.G. 5380 Kauai BISH 1983-08-30
36 Drosera anglica Alakai Trail, Waimea, at B.N.3932 small bog 400 m. diaameter, occasional with Oreobolus and Panicum Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22911 Kauai BISH 1947-12-22
37 Drosera anglica Kauai Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH
38 Drosera anglica Kauluwehi swamp Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5138 Kauai BISH 1909-09-08
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