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Family: Droseraceae
Drosera glanduligera

Citation: Lehm., Nov. Stirp. Pugill. 8:37 (1844).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Scarlet sundew.

Description:
Ephemeral herb with fibrous roots; stem to 10 mm long, erect; leaves in a convex rosette, 15-20, lamina suborbicular to almost flabellate, very concave, 9-12 mm diam., abruptly narrowed to a flat petiole 3-8 mm long and 2-4 mm wide; stipules fused to the base of the petiole, 1-2 mm long.

Scapes 1-4, 3-5 cm long, glandular-hirsute, many-flowered; pedicels 4-10 mm long, deflexed after flowering; calyx 4-5 mm long, pilose, deeply divided into ovate laciniate lobes; petals obovate-cuneate, 4-5 mm long, orange or red; styles 3, each bi- or trifurcate towards the apex.

image of FSA1_Drosera_gla.jpg Drosera glanduligera
Image source: fig 202a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Drosera_gla2.jpg Drosera glanduligera
Image source: fig 202g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 339; R. Erickson (1968) Plants of prey, t. 2(8).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.


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