Drosera sulphurea, the sulphur-flowered sundew,[1][2] 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 40–60 cm (16–24 in) high. Yellow flowers bloom in September.[1][3]

Drosera sulphurea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Subgenus: Drosera subg. Ergaleium
Section: Drosera sect. Ergaleium
Species:
D. sulphurea
Binomial name
Drosera sulphurea
Synonyms
  • D. bifida R.Br. ex Diels
  • D. flava R.Br. ex Diels
  • D. flavescens R.Br. ex Diels
  • D. neesii var. sulphurea (Lehm.) Benth.

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.[4][5]

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  1. ^ a b "Drosera sulphurea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  2. ^ Erickson, Rica. 1968. Plants of Prey in Australia. Lamb Paterson Pty. Ltd.: Osborne Park, Western Australia.
  3. ^ Slack, Adrian. 2000. Carnivorous Plants. MIT Press. pp. 144.
  4. ^ Schlauer, J. 2009. World Carnivorous Plant List - Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants Archived 18 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed online: 2 September 2009.
  5. ^ 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.