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Each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs
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genlisea
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Genlisea is a genus of carnivorous plants also known as corkscrew plants . The 30 or so species grow in wet terrestrial to semi-aquatic environments distributed throughout Africa and Central and South America . The plants use highly modified underground ...
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n. rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs
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We thus see that animals are captured by Genlisea, not by means of an elastic valve, as with the foregoing species, but by a contrivance resembling an eeltrap, though more complex.