Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Annual and perennial rhizomatous or fibrous-rooted herbs or herbs with a spherical tuber and a vertical stolon; leaves in a rosette or cauline.

Lamina with insect-catching glandular hairs, flowers regular, bisexual; sepals 4 or 5, free or almost free; petals 4 or 5, free; stamens 4 or 5, free, alternate with the petals; ovary superior, 1-celled; ovules numerous, on 2-5 parietal placentas; styles 3 or 4, simple or branched.

Fruit a loculicidal capsule with persistent calyx; seeds small, usually black, with endosperm.

Distribution:  4 genera, 3 monotypic and Drosera with c. 100 species in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. (N. G. Marchant, H. I. Aston & A.S. George (1982) Fl. Aust. 8:9-66.)

Biology: No text

Author: Prepared by N. G. Marchant