Re: U.ochroleuca/stygia

From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Date: Wed Sep 16 1998 - 08:23:24 PDT


Date:          Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:23:24 
From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg3026$foo@default>
Subject:       Re: U.ochroleuca/stygia

Dear David,

> Can somebody please tell me the features which distinguish U.stygia from
> U.intermedia and U.ochroleuca.
> Does anybody cultivate reliably identified specimens of any of these three
> species and would they be interested in trading plant material?

The two species can quite reliably be distinguished by the quadrifid
hairs on the interior surface of the traps. These are either X-shaped
(equal length of all arms and equal angles between the arms of the
upper and lower pair) or the lower pair forms a wider angle than the
upper.

Kind regards
Jan



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