Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Drosera spilos
Droseraceae Salisb.
Drosera spilos 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): 327-328 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia, Bindoon-Moora Highway, 0.6 km S of Gillingarra, in loam soils covered with laterite pebbles, A.Lowrie 85/098, 20/10/85 (holotypus PERTH)."
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "The epithet from the Greek spilos, a spot, refers to the dark pinkish blotch near the base of each petal."