Drosera Falconeri Information

Drosera Falconeri Kondo and Tsang

Bol. Soc. Brot., Ser. 2, 57: 52, 53, 55, pls IC, E; IIG-I; IIIC, I, J-L (1984)

A tropical, fibrous-rooted perennial plant with a flat, basal rosette of reddish leaves, small at anthesis, later enlarging; leaves deciduous in the dry season as plant retreats below the soil surface to its bulb-like structure for dormancy.

Leaf – lamina reniform, at the peak of maturity 1.5 cm long, 2 cm wide; retentive glands around margins of the lamina, smaller glands within; lower surface prominently veined fan-like, and sparsely covered with non-glandular white hairs; petiole oblanceolate in outline, 10 mm long, 2 mm wide near base, dilated to 3.5 mm wide near the center, then narrowing to 3 mm wide at lamina, glabrous above, the margins and lower surface sparsely covered with white hairs.