BYBLIDACEAE
Morphological description
Herbs, glandular hairy (insectivorous).
Leaves
Leaves linear, spiral, exstipulate.
Inflorescence
Flowers solitary, axillary.
Flowers
Flower 5-merous, actinomorphic; sepals and petals connate at base, petals contorted; disk absent; ovary superior, 2-celled.
Different from: Droseraceae: usually stipulate, flowers in a raceme. - Lentibulariaceae: leafless plants, provided with bladders.
Distribution: A monotypic family. The only genus of the family, Byblis, has only two species in Australia of which one also occurs in South New Guinea.
Notes: The family is probably closest to Lentibulariaceae, another family of insectivorous plants.
Literature: C.G.G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. I, 7 (1971) 135-137.
Illustrations: Fig. 37. Byblis liniflora Salisb. (Byblidaceae). a. Habit; b. stem tip; c. leaf tip; d. flower; e & f. flower, corolla removed; g & h. fruit. Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 7 (1971) 137, fig. 1. a c b d f e h g.
Byblidaceae in Kew Plants of the World Online: http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77126646-1