Drosera sulphurea
{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}}
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| genus = Drosera
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| parent = Drosera sect. Ergaleium
| species = sulphurea
| authority = Lehm.
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- D. bifida R.Br. ex Diels
- D. flava R.Br. ex Diels
- D. flavescens R.Br. ex Diels
- D. neesii var. sulphurea (Lehm.) Benth.
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Drosera sulphurea, the sulphur-flowered sundew,{{FloraBase|id=8914|name=Drosera sulphurea}}Erickson, Rica. 1968. Plants of Prey in Australia. Lamb Paterson Pty. Ltd.: Osborne Park, Western Australia. is a scrambling perennial tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. It is endemic to Western Australia and is found in coastal areas in sandy loam, often among Cephalotus. D. sulphurea produces small, shield-shaped carnivorous leaves along stems that can be {{convert|40|-|60|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} high. Yellow flowers bloom in September.Slack, Adrian. 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ROS4xtUpMFwC&pg=PA144 Carnivorous Plants]. MIT Press. pp. 144.
Botanical history
Drosera sulphurea was first described by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann in 1844. In 1864, George Bentham reduced the species to a variety of D. neesii. It was then further reduced to synonymy with D. neesii by N. G. Marchant in 1982. Then in 1999 Allen Lowrie, noticing that it was distantly related to D. subhirtella and its allied species, reinstated the species.Schlauer, J. 2009. [http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi World Carnivorous Plant List - Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918161537/http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi |date=18 September 2016 }}. Accessed online: 2 September 2009.Lowrie, A. 1999. A taxonomic review of the yellow-flowered tuberous species of Drosera (Droseraceae) from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia, 13(1): 75-87.
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Category:Carnivorous plants of Australia
Category:Caryophyllales of Australia
Category:Eudicots of Western Australia
Category:Plants described in 1844
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