Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Family
Chapter:
664.74.00
664.74.00 Roridulaceae
Names: from Latin roridus "dewy".
Botany: 1 genus, Roridula, 2 species; South African; ± carnivorous, insect-trapping sticky hairs, obtains nutrients from the droppings of this symbiotic capsid bug Pameridea roridulae feeding on the trapped insects.