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Drosera rotundifolia L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

[Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)]

Droseraceae Salisbury


Three genera

Aldrovanda L. (ムジナモ, 貉藻), waterwheel plant: monotypic, A. esiculosa L.
Dionaea J. Ellis (ハエトリグサ, 蠅捕草), venus flytrap: monotypic, D. muscipula Sol. ex J.Ellis in tropical wetlands in the North America
Drosera L. (モウセンゴケ)

Drosera L. (モウセンゴケ)


Ca 90 spp in the world (60 spp in Australia)
Inflorescence: indeterminate
Japan
D. peltata Smith var. nipponica (Masam.) Ohwi (イシモチソウ), south to Kanto District
D. indica L. (ナガバノイシモチソウ)

Distribution: Africa - India - southeast Asia (central Honshu) - Ausutralia

D. spathulata Labill. (コモウセンゴケ) (s.l.): 2n = 20, 40, 60

Distribution: southern Japan (south to Miyagi Prefecture) - southeast Asia - Australia - New Zealand
ssp. spathulata (s.s.)
ssp. tokaiensis Komiya et Shibata (トウカイコモウセンゴケ)

= D. tokaiensis (Koyiya et Shibata) Nakamura T. et Shibata C.

D. rotundiffolia L. (モウセンゴケ)
D. anglica Hudson (ナガバノモウセンゴケ)
D. obovata Mert. et Koch (サジバモウセンゴケ)

Drosera rotundifolia in Hokkaido


Mousengoke (モウセンゴケ, 毛氈苔), Roundleaf sundew (common sundew)
Lifeform: short-lived, carnivorous, perennial forb (食虫植物)
Distribution: North America, South America, Europe, and Asia (see the map)
Habitat: nutrient-poor and sunny sites (wetlands (湿原), e.g., marshes, fens, and black spruce forest, and Sphagnum bogs / silty and boggy shorelines and wet sands / baregrounds on volcanoes) → Flora on Mount Koma
Chromosome number: 2n = 20
var. gracilis Laest., small-leaved in Alaska
Specimen
Mount Koma. The specimen was collected on the southwestern slope at ca 850 m in elevation on August 13 2000, and was stored in the Hokkaido University Herbarium (SAPS).
Volcanoes

Drosera1 Drosera2
[1/2] Mount Tarumae on Juen 12 2008. [1] Carpet of D. rotundifolia. [2] close-up.

Wetlands

ST1 ST2 seed3
ST4 ST5 ST6
[1/2] in a post-mined peatland, Sarobetsu mire, northern Hokkaido. [1] on July 13 2013. [2] on June 7 2005 by Hoyo (保要博士). [3] seed taken by a microscope (VHX-2000, KEYENCE/キーエンス), on April 21 2012. The seed was collected from a post-mined Sarobetsu mire by Hoyo. Compare to the seeds of D. anglica. [4/6] in Shizukari Wetland, southern Hokkaido. [4] on June 15 2015. [5/6] on July 7 2017.

Drosera in Western Australia


Drosera1 Drosera2 Sorry. All photos are a bit out of focus.
No Japanese name (* ドラモンドコモウセンゴケ, 試訳 tentative translation)
Drosera barbigera Planch. (Drummond pygmy sundew). This species is distributed only in Western Australia. [1] October 3 2003. [2] October 2 2003.
Drosera1 Droeera2 No Japanese name (* キノボリモウセンゴケ, 試訳 tentative translation)
Drosera macrantha Endl. ssp. macrantha (Climbing sundew / Bridal rainbow sundew). Climbing plant. Many subspecies. [1] near New Norcia, October 2 2003. [2] October 3 2003.