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Small insectivorous tap-rooted subshrubs, sometimes branched; axes and leaves covered with rows of stalked mucilage tentacles and irregularly distributed sessile digesting glands, otherwise glabrous. Leaves spiral, crowded, narrow-linear, reversely circinate in bud; exstipulate. Inflorescence terminal, few-flowered, thyrso-paniculate. Flowers hermaphroditic, regular, hypogynous; sepals 5, imbricate, fused at base, glandular; petals free, contort, yellow, deciduous; stamens 5 + 5, anthers extrorse; gynoecium of 5 carpels united to form a compound, unilocular ovary; style none, stylodia 5, with capitate stigmas; ovules basal, numerous, anatropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate, with long funicles attached to a basal, conical placenta. Fruit capsular, coriaceous, erect, loculicidally opening in upper half. Seeds numerous, with thick testa; endosperm copious, carnose; embryo small. 2n = 12.
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Kubitzki, K. (2003). Drosophyllaceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Bayer, C. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_22
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