Botanical Name / Drosera indica L.

කෘමි භක්ෂක ශාකයකි. A straggling leafy plant with weak erect, sometimes decumbent, slightly branched, glandular-pubescent stems, usually 4.5-25.0 cm long; leaves many, cauline, alternate, narrowly linear, glandular hairy, about 2.5 -6.0 cm long, hardly broader than the petiole, circinate in vernation; petioles glabrous, about 1.5 cm long; stipules absent; the young leaves in the upper region of the stem erect and circinate, the mature leaves in the mid-region of the stem spreading and horizontal, the oldest leaves towards the basal region of the stem usually deflexed and supporting the weak stem in the manner of stilt-roots; flowers mauve or pinky purple, usually over 1.5 cm across, 3-15 on axillary, terminal and leaf-opposed glandular racemes usually 5.5-10.5 cm long; calyx segments oblong-oval, subobtuse, entire, glandular-pubescent; petals narrow-spathulate, obtuse; styles 3; capsule broadly oblong; seeds minute, ovoid, reticulate. (FOC)

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