Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Drosera roseana
Droseraceae Salisb.
Drosera roseana 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): 327 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia, Millbrook Road, c. 5 km E of Albany Highway, in peaty sand on the margins of swamps, A.Lowrie 87/025, 7/10/87 (holotypus PERTH)."
  • Etymology: "This taxon is named in honour of Steve Rose, prospector, photographer and enthusiast of native carnivorous plants and orchids, who has devoted countless hours over many seasons to field studies of pygmy Drosera."
Schlauer, J. (1996), A dichotomous key to the genus Drosera L. (Droseraceae). Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 25(3): 73 [basionym]
basionym of: Drosera paleacea subsp. roseana (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Schlauer legitimate
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 587 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Drosera paleacea subsp. roseana (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Schlauer legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera roseana Lowrie nom. inval.
  • APC Dist.: WA