Butterworts

Description

Pinguicula emarginata is a carnivorous plant of the genus Fataceae ( Pinguicula ) in the section Temnoceras . Pinguicula emarginata is a perennial plant that grows all year round and does not form a winter rosette, so it is classified as a tropical-homophylles butterwort . It forms a basal leaf rosette of five to sixteen elliptic to reverse ovate leaves that are 10 to 50 millimeters long and 5 to 22 millimeters wide and slightly rolled up the edge. On one to seven 40 to 100 millimeters long, upright and filamentous inflorescence axles sit the - including the spur - 10 to 16.5 mm long and 8 to 13 millimeters wide, terminal single flowers. The calyx is zweilippig, the upper lip consists of three oblong-round to oblong-round lanceolate, only at the base overgrown lobes, which are 1.6 to 2.5 millimeters long and 0.5 to 0.8 millimeters wide, the lower lip two oblong-round to oblong-round lanceolate, in the lower third overgrown lobes, which are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long and 0.3 to 0.7 millimeters wide. The crown is also zweilippig, of white ground color and with violet veining, The upper lip is significantly shorter than the lower lip, divided into two oblong-round to approximately square lobes and 2 to 4 millimeters long and wide. The lower lip is three-lobed, 3.3 to 6.2 millimeters long and 2 to 5 millimeters wide, the lobes are spatulate to reverse ovate. The plant is not self-sterile, but requires cross-pollination. The chromosome number is 2n = 22