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How closely related are Petiolaris to Pigmy dews?

jimscott

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Whenever there are ID pics of the two, and the size perspective isn't obvious, to me the the leaves and traps look very similar. Whaddya think?
 
Compliments of Bob Z (a few threads lower) and Fernando & friends: Phylogeny of Sundews

I don't really know many pygmy names but they appear to be pretty close...
 
I perused the site - twice - but they only mentioned D. pygmaea and didn't discuss Petiolaris Complex plants at all. Maybe I missed something?
 
Hey Jim,

My phylogeny work suggests that petiolaris-complex & pygmies are sister groups. They sure do look like they're related, don't you agree??
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Best Wishes,
Fernando Rivadavia
 
They certainly do! And when someone posts a picture of just the plant, without size perspective, a Petiolaris plant has that leaf and cup shape of a pigmy. I wondew why the pigmy dews produce gemmae whereas the Petiolaris do not.
 
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Quote[/b] (jimscott @ Aug. 17 2006,8:25)]I perused the site - twice - but they only mentioned D. pygmaea and didn't discuss Petiolaris Complex plants at all. Maybe I missed something?
Jim,
Yup. About 1/3rd of the way down the page, there are 2 diagrams on the left side. Click on the lower one to get a larger version ... If it's not large enough to read, you can 'stretch' the frame & make it larger (at least in my browser).
 
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Quote[/b] (jimscott @ Aug. 18 2006,6:48)]I wonder why the pigmy dews produce gemmae whereas the Petiolaris do not.
'Cause they gots no reason to.
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They clearly are different, and evolved differently.

-Ben
 
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