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Drosophyllum

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n.1.a genus of dicotyledonous plants having only one species.
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Noun1.Drosophyllum - one species
genus Drosophyllum
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Droseraceae, family Droseraceae, sundew family - a family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs
Drosophyllum lusitanicum - perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects; Portugal, southern Spain and Morocco
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Drosophyllum lusitanicum, an endangered west Mediterranean endemic carnivorous plant: threats and its ability to control available resources.
An updated classification of the class Magnoliopsida by Thorne, Robert F.; Reveal, James L. / The Botanical Review
For example, in addition to cleistogamy in Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Droseraceae), selfing can occur simultaneously on an individual plant in CH flowers via prior selfing, delayed selfing, or geitonogamy (Ortega-Olivencia et al.
The cleistogamous breeding system: a review of its frequency, ... by Culley, Theresa M.; Klooster, Matthew R. / The Botanical Review
Drosophyllum contains five times as many chloroplasts as 24 Drosera species contain on average, and about 20 times as much nDNA (Table I, note 36).
Reproduction and continuity of chloroplasts in spermatophytes by Butterfass, T.H. / The Botanical Review
 
 
 
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