DROSERACEAE - Sundew Family
Insectivorous perennial herbs
Leaves alternate in a rosette, simple, blade modified as an active trap
(Dionaea -Venus Flytrap) or
with irritable, mucilage-tipped tentacle hairs
(Drosera - Sundews)
Flowers in cymes, perfect, regular,
hypogunous, calyx, corolla, and stamens withering-persistent
Fruits a loculicidal capsule
Seeds 3 to many
4 genera, 100 species, Drosera is only genus with more than 1 species
Economic use: ornamentals
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