DROSERACEAE
Morphological description
Insectivorous herbs. Sometimes submerged aquatic plants, leaves in whorls (Aldrovanda).
Leaves
Leaves usually in a rosette provided with stalked sticky glands, stipulate.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence a raceme.
Flowers
Flower bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous, ovary superior.
Fruit
Fruit.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Lentibulariaceae: flowers zygomorphic, plants provided with bladders. - Byblidaceae: flowers solitary.
Distribution: The family patchily distributed all over the world, best represented in Australia. In Malesia 2 genera: Aldrovanda (rare) and Drosera.
Notes: All species are found in oligotrophic habitats.
Literature: C.G.G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1953) 377-381; B.J. Conn, Brun- onia 3 (1980) 209-216.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Aldrovanda 46 - Drosera 1.
Illustrations: Fig. 73. Drosera indica L. (left) and Drosera burmanni Vahl (right) (Droseraceae). Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 4 (1953) 378, fig. 1.
Image in PhytoImages for Droseraceae