Drosera macrophylla

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Drosera macrophylla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Subgenus: Drosera subg. Ergaleium
Section: Drosera sect. Erythrorhiza
Species:
D. macrophylla
Binomial name
Drosera macrophylla
Subspecies
  • D. macrophylla subsp. macrophylla Lindl.
  • D. macrophylla subsp. monantha Lowrie & Carlquist

Drosera macrophylla, the showy sundew,

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]

See also

References

  1. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
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  2. ^ Lowrie, A. and S. Carlquist. 1992. Eight new taxa of Drosera from Australia. Phytologia, 73(2): 98-116.

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