Drosera fragrans

{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}}

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| genus = Drosera

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| parent = Drosera sect. Arachnopus

| species = fragrans

| authority = Lowrie

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite journal|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/97520854/143988313|last=Bourke|first=G.|date=2016|title=Drosera cucullata|journal=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|volume=2018|issue=e.T97520854A143988313|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T97520854A143988313.en|accessdate=27 October 2024}}

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Drosera fragrans is a species of sundew endemic to the north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It was first described by Allen Lowrie in his 2014 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus.{{IPNI|id=77142026-1|taxon=Drosera fragrans|accessdate=27 October 2024}} Like other members of Drosera sect. Arachnopus it is an annual therophyte.{{cite book |last1=Fleischmann |first1=Andreas |last2=Cross |first2=Adam |last3=Gibson |first3=Robert |last4=Gonella |first4=Paulo |last5=Dixon |first5=Kingsley |title=Systematics and taxonomy of Droseraceae. In: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, ecology and evolution |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198779841 |pages=45–57 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27905 |access-date=22 September 2024}}

The species name refers to the strong sweet scent produced by the plant's leaves and stem, which is described as reminiscent of honeydew melon.{{cite book |last1=Lowrie |first1=Allen |last2=Nunn |first2=Richard |last3=Robinson |first3=Alastair |last4=Bourke |first4=Greg |last5=McPherson |first5=Stewart |last6=Fleischmann |first6=Andreas |title=Drosera of the World Vol. 1 |date=2017 |publisher=Redfern Natural History Productions |location=Poole, Dorset, England |isbn=978-1-908787-16-3}} It appears that this fragrance may influence the types of prey captured.{{cite journal |last1=Fleischmann |first1=A. |title=Olfactory prey attraction in Drosera? |journal=Carnivorous Plant Newsletter |date=2016 |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=19–25 |doi=10.55360/cpn451.af483 |url=https://cpn.carnivorousplants.org/articles/CPNv45n1p19_25.pdf |access-date=27 October 2024}}{{cite journal |last1=Krueger |first1=T |last2=Cross |first2=A. T. |last3=Fleischmann |first3=A. |title=Size matters: trap size primarily determines prey spectra differences among sympatric species of carnivorous sundews |journal=Ecosphere |date=2020 |volume=11 |issue=7 |doi=10.1002/ecs2.3179 |bibcode=2020Ecosp..11E3179K |url=https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.3179 |access-date=27 October 2024|hdl=20.500.11937/84627 |hdl-access=free }}