Drosophyllum
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Drosophyllum is a genus of carnivorous plants containing the single species Drosophyllum lusitanicum or Dewy pine. Drosophyllum is very similar to the closely related genus Drosera (the sundews), and to the rather more distantly related Byblis (the rainbow plants).
The single species is native to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and is one of the few carnivorous plants to grow in dry, alkaline soil. The long, glandular leaves lack the power of movement common to most sundews, but have the unusual characteristic of being coiled outward when immature.
The genus had always been assumed to be closely allied to Drosera, however, recent molecular and biochemical data place it in the monotypic Drosophyllaceae (Chrtek, Slaviková & Studnicka), as recommended by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, and allied with the Dioncophyllaceae (Triphyophyllum) and Ancistrocladaceae.
Links
International carnivorous plant society (http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/samples/Science262Evol.htm)Template:Plant-stub