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INSECTIVEROUS PLANTS with either sticky glands on the leaves (Fig.28), or with bladders 1–2 mm long on submerged or subterranean leaves (Fig. 28). Very delicate herbs
Leaves with glandular hairs, in a rosette and/or ascending and bifurcating (Fig. 24) Droseraceae
Leaves all basal. Roots fibrous, never tuberous
Leaves undivided, usually in a rosette, reddish
Flowers solitary, minute, on filiform pedicels. Leaves orbicular, 1–2 mm diam. on slender petioles; stipules whitish, membranous, deeply incised, enclosing the central bud in resting stage in dry summers. Petals white. Whole plant c. 12 mm diam. Wet soil in open. Fl. spring–summer. Coast and adjacent plateaus and Cumberland Plain near coast Drosera pygmaea