Drosera admirabilis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Droseraceae
- Genus
- Drosera
- Species
- Drosera admirabilis
- Scientific Name
- Drosera admirabilis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Drosera admirabilis
Drosera admirabilis, sometimes referred to as the "floating sundew", is in the carnivorous plant family Droseraceae. The species was first described by Paul Debbert in 1987 and is native to the south-western Cape Province of South Africa.
Structurally similar to Drosera aliciae, and Drosera cuneifolia, the D. admirabilis grows in a single tight rosette-shaped leaf bundle. The leaves widen towards the end and have rounded tips. Leaves lay horizontally under proper lighting conditions. Like many other African sundews, D. admirabilis is a perennial. D. admirabilis has outer tentacles like those of Drosera glanduligera, Drosera sessilifolia and Drosera burmanni which briefly after stimulation bend towards the prey.
...Drosera admirabilis in languages:
- English
- Floating Sundew
- Russian
- Росянка клинолистная
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Drosera acaulis
- Drosera admirabilis
- Drosera affinis
- Drosera alba
- Drosera aliciae
- Drosera atrostyla
- Drosera bequaertii
- Drosera burkeana
- Drosera capensis
- Drosera cistiflora
- Drosera coccipetala
- Drosera collinsiae
- Drosera cuneifolia
- Drosera curvipes
- Drosera dielsiana
- Drosera elongata
- Drosera ericgreenii
- Drosera esterhuyseniae
- Drosera glabripes
- Drosera hilaris
- Drosera humbertii
- Drosera katangensis
- Drosera madagascariensis
- Drosera natalensis
- Drosera nidiformis
- Drosera nidiformis × natalensis
- Drosera pauciflora
- Drosera pilosa
- Drosera ramentacea
- Drosera rubrifolia
- Drosera slackii
- Drosera trinervia
- Drosera trinervia × cistiflora
- Drosera variegata
- Drosera venusta
- Drosera xerophila
- Drosera zeyheri
- Drosera × corinthiaca































































































































































