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Droseraceae (sundew and Venus' fly trap family)
Life
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plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Order: Caryophyllales
Four genera and about 100 species
(cosmopolitan), of which two genera and 21 species are indigenous in
southern Africa.
Genera indigenous in southern Africa
Information from Dreyer and Jordaan (2000).
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Aldrovanda
One species: Aldrovanda vesiculosa
(widespread through Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa,
including southern Africa). |
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Drosera
(sundews)
About 80 species (cosmopolitan), of
which 20 are indigenous in southern Africa. |
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Other genera, cultivated in southern Africa
Information from Glen (2002).
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Dionaea (Venus' fly-trap)
One species: Dionaea muscipula
(Venus' fly-trap), indigenous to SE USA. |
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Drosophyllum
One species: Drosophyllum
lusitanicum, indigenous from Portugal through to
Morocco. |
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Publications
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Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of
southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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Dreyer, L.L. and Jordaan, M. 2000. Droseraceae. In: Seed Plants of
Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). Strelitzia 10: 244-245).
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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