''Byblis liniflora'' is a species of

carnivorous plant Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds. They have adapted to grow in waterlo ...

in the family

Byblidaceae ''Byblis'' ( ) is a small genus of carnivorous plants, sometimes termed the rainbow plants for the attractive appearance of their mucilage-covered leaves in bright sunshine. Native to Australia and New Guinea, it is the only genus in the fami ...

. It is found in

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, and

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

. ''Byblis liniflora'' contains acteoside (

verbascoside Verbascoside is a polyphenol glycoside in which the phenylpropanoid caffeic acid and the phenylethanoid hydroxytyrosol form an ester and an ether bond respectively, to the rhamnose part of a disaccharide, namely β-(3′,4′-dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl ...

) as do many other Lamiales.Acteoside and related phenylethanoid glycosides in Byblis liniflora Salisb. plants propagated in vitro and its systematic significance. Jan Schlauer, Jaromir Budzianowski, Krystyna Kukułczanka and Lidia Ratajczak, Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2004, volume 73, issue 1,

References

liniflora Eudicots of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of Queensland Flora of New Guinea Carnivorous plants of Asia Least concern flora of Australia Least concern biota of Queensland Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Australia-asterid-stub