Plumbago - a close relative to Drosera and Neps
Fernando Rivadavia Lopes (ferndriv@usp.br)
Sat, 3 Feb 1996 19:30:33 -0300 (GRNLNDST)
While in Europe, I discussed with Jan Schlauer the recent
publications showing throught DNA sequencing that Plumbago is not very
distant from Drosera and Nepenthes. In fact, someone (I'm almost sure it
was you Jan) even asked me to send some plants in alcohol, since I have
them growing in my backyard here in Sao Paulo. As soon as I got back to
Brazil, I went to inspect closely these plants, to see the glandular
hairs supposedly present on the sepals. Surprisingly, the sticky
tentacles are very similar to those on Drosophyllum or Drosera and I
found several small ants trapped on these. Very curious!
I've already got the plants in alcohol, I just need to confirm
before sending them off if it was really you, Jan, who wanted the plants.
Fernando Rivadavia
Sao Paulo, Brazil