Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Drosera orbiculata
Droseraceae Salisb.
Drosera orbiculata N.G.Marchant & Lowrie , legitimate, scientific
Marchant, N.G. & Lowrie, A.S. (1992), New names and new combinations in 35 taxa of Western Australian tuberous and pygmy Drosera. Kew Bulletin 47(2): 319-320 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia, Bindoon-Moora Highway, 1.3 km N of Gillingarra, in sandy clay soils in washes and winter-wet depressions, A.Lowrie 10/6/86 (holotypus PERTH)."
  • Etymology: "The specific epithet refers to the circular outline of the leaf lamina."
  • APC Dist.: WA
Chrtek, J. & Slavikova, Z. (2000), Genera and families of the Droserales order. Novitates Botanicae ex Universitate Carolina 13: 44 [basionym]
basionym of: Sondera orbiculata (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Chrtek & Slavikova legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sondera orbiculata (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Chrtek & Slavikova legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA