''Drosera sessilifolia'' is a species in the carnivorous plant genus ''Drosera'' that is native to Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela and grows in sandy or gravelly soils in seasonal seepages where a thin film of water collects. It produces a rosette (botany), rosette of small, wedge-shaped to round carnivorous leaves that are usually yellowish but become redder with age. Inflorescences produce pink-lilac flowers.
[Rivadavia, Fernando. 1996. ]
Drosera sessilifolia
'. ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'', 25(1): 26-29. It has a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20.
[Rivadavia, Fernando. 2005]
New chromosome numbers for ''Drosera'' L. (Droseraceae)
''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'', 34(3):85-91.
''Drosera sessilifolia'' was first described by Augustin Saint-Hilaire in 1824 after it was discovered in the western end of the Brazilian state Minas Gerais near the São Francisco River. George Bentham then described ''D. dentata'' from Guyana, which Ludwig Diels reduced to synonym (taxonomy), synonymy with ''D. sessilifolia'' in his 1906 monograph on the Droseraceae. It is closely related to ''Drosera burmannii, D. burmannii'', the only other species in subgenus ''Drosera subg. Thelocalyx, Thelocalyx'', though ''D. burmannii'' is native to Australia and Southeast Asia.
[Schlauer, J. 2009]
World Carnivorous Plant List - Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants
Accessed online: 12 September 2009.
See also
*List of Drosera species, List of ''Drosera'' species
References
Drosera, sessilifolia
Carnivorous plants of South America
Flora of Brazil
Flora of Guyana
Flora of Venezuela
Guayana Highlands
Plants described in 1824
{{Droseraceae-stub