Drosera_macrophylla

<i>Drosera macrophylla</i>

Drosera macrophylla

Species of carnivorous plant

Drosera macrophylla, the showy sundew,[1] is a perennial tuberous species in the genus Drosera that is endemic to Western Australia. It grows in a rosette with leaves 4 cm (2 in) long and 2 cm (1 in) wide. It is a common species east of Perth. It grows in loam soils. It flowers from June to October. D. macrophylla was first described by John Lindley in his 1839 publication A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony. In 1992, Allen Lowrie and Sherwin Carlquist described a new subspecies, D. macrophylla subsp. monantha, which is distinguished from D. macrophylla subsp. macrophylla by its single-flowered or rarely biflowered inflorescences. Subspecies monantha is abundant in the Bruce Rock/Merredin region.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Drosera macrophylla". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  2. [2]
    Lowrie, A. and S. Carlquist. 1992. Eight new taxa of Drosera from Australia. Phytologia, 73(2): 98-116.


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