Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
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
Styles 5, undivided. Leaves green, spathulate-cuneate, up to 2 cm long, 1–3 cm wide; stipules divided, membranous. Petals white. Cumberland Plain and Blue Mts Wet places. Fl. spring–summer Drosera burmannii
Styles 3–4, divided almost to the base. Leaves reddish, spathulate, 1–3 cm long; stipules membranous, laciniate. Flowers in a monochasia which resemble one-sided racemes. Sepals c. 3 mm long. Petals pink or white, c. as long as the sepals. Widespread. Wet places. Fl. spring–summer Drosera spatulata