Drosera monticola

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Drosera monticola
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. Stolonifera
Species:
D. monticola
Binomial name
Drosera monticola
(
N.G.Marchant
) Lowrie
Synonyms
  • D. stolonifera subsp. monticola Lowrie & N.G.Marchant

Drosera monticola is a

sundews. This species is endemic to a single mountain range in Western Australia.[1]

Drosera monticola is a small

glabrous raceme with terminal pink flowers. However, it also reproduces asexually by forming colonies. The mature seeds of the plant remain undescribed and unknown.[1]

This species is entirely endemic to the summits of Toolbrunup Peak and Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Range National Park, a range of mountains in Southwestern Australia. It is specifically limited to extremely high elevations, such as the cloud-lines of the mountain summits in its range. In these environments, it can only be found in winter-wet loamy soils collecting on ledges and depressions. While its discoverers have stated that the taxon can probably be found on the summits of other mountains within the Stirling Range, actual specimens have only been collected from the two peaks previously mentioned.[1]

It was first formally described as a subspecies of

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Thus that name was not valid and the taxon formally remained a subspecies of Drosera stolonifera.[1][2] Lowrie corrected this error in a short note in the 2011 volume of the journal Nuytsia where he provided the correct page number for the basionym and finally validated the name Drosera monticola.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Lowrie, Allen. 2005. A taxonomic revision of Drosera section Stolonifera (Droseraceae), from south-west Western Australia.[permanent dead link] Nuytsia, 15(3): 355-394.
  2. ^ "Drosera monticola Lowrie & N.G. Marchant". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 26 January 2009.
  3. ^ Lowrie, Allen. 2011. Validation of the name Drosera monticola (Droseraceae), a species from the south-west of Western Australia.[permanent dead link] Nuytsia, 21(3): 152.

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