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- Title
- Trigger hair of <em>Dionaea muscipula</em> (Venus flytrap) and a view of mucila
- Author
- S. E. Williams Lebenon Valley College Department of Biology Annville Pennsylvania 17003 USA
- Keywords
- Drosera, apomorphy, Dionaea, Drosera capensis, Dionaea muscipula
- Description
- BSA Plant Images Online -
- Left: Trigger hair of Dionaea muscipula (Venus flytrap). Right: Enlarged view of mucilage-covered tip of Drosera capensis (Cape sundew). Each of these two different structures produces an electrical signal that triggers leaf movements, an apomorphy uniting Dionaea and Drosera with the Droseraceae.
- Additional data
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copyright: S. E. Williams, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
- Collection
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Systematics and Evolution
- Botanical Name
- <em>Dionaea muscipula</em> and <em>Drosera capensis</em>
- Common Name
- Venus flytrap and Cape sundew
- End User Role
- Teacher, Learner
- Link URL
- http://www.botany.org/Abstracts/81-08-1027.php
- Link Title
- Relationships of Droseraceae; a cladistic analysis of rbcL sequence and morphological data
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