Droseraceae Drosera hookeri Wildflowershttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/droseraceae/drosera/hookeri/rss/droseraceae/drosera/hookeriA wildflower is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted. Use this database to help you find and identify Australia's abundant Wildflowers.en-auCopyright 2001 - 2024 I.T. Beyond Pty Ltd1440https://cdn.exploroz.com/exploroz/images/logo.pngExplorOz Logohttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/droseraceae/drosera/hookeri/rss/droseraceae/drosera/hookeriDrosera hookerihttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/644+drosera-hookerihttps://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/644+drosera-hookeri<a href="https://www.exploroz.com/wildflowers/644+drosera-hookeri"><img src="https://cdn.exploroz.com/images/GalleryTag_W644__TN130.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="5" /></a> Named after Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (born 1817) - a world famous botanist who travelled on the Antarctic expedition of 1839 under the command of Sir James Ross and wrote "Handbook of New Zealand Flora" published in 1864-67 describing many specimens sent to Kew by collectors. He died in 1911 and has a memorial stone at Westminster Abbey London. Tuberous herb, often bright yellow-green in colour (rarely reddish to maroon); tuber ovoid, up to 5 × 5 mm tall; surface white to red, often in a papery sheath; vertical stolon 10–40 mm long. Above ground parts of the plants highly variable in height, with glabrous stems between 25 × 380 mm tall; unbranched or branched apically, distally, or both. Leaves, often in a flat basal rosette and cauline; basal leaves 2–22, the lamina ovate, elliptic, flabellate, reniform to hatchet-shaped, 1–5 × 2–11mm on a linear petiole 3.0–17.0 × 1.8 mm; cauline leaves alternate, the lamina crescentic, 1.0–6.5 × 1–10 mm, with acute angles, on petiole 3–17 mm long. Inflorescence a 1-sided raceme, 1–10-flowered; peduncle usually 10–50 mm long, but can be as short as 0.1 mm; pedicels 0.5–15 mm long. Sepals ovate, elliptic or obovate, 2.0–5.0 × 0.7–2.4 mm, usually moderately to densely hairy (with up to 30 hairs per mm square), but can also be glabrous; always with a fimbriate margin with hairs up to 1.3mm long. Petals obovate to cuneate, 3–7mm long by 2–7mm wide, white or pink. Styles 3, 0.3–1.2 mm long, divided into a total of between c.20-30 segments. Seeds 0.5–0.8 × 0.3 mm, cylindrical, pandurate to obovoid with a deeply pitted surface.<br /> Family: Droseraceae &nbsp; Genus: Drosera &nbsp; Species: hookeri &nbsp; Main Flower Colour: White<br />Stephen L (Clare) SAWed, 19 Nov 2014 06:01:00 GMT