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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Drosera

Hierarchical position of the Genus Drosera

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Nepenthanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.       Ordo  Droserales Griseb. pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 75. Jan-Jun 1854.       Familia  Droseraceae Salisb. pub. Parad. Lond. 2: ad t. 95. 1808. common name: Sundews and Venus Flytrap       Subfamilia  Droseroideae Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 98. 9 Mar 1832.       Tribus  Drosereae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 115. 1827.       Genus  Drosera L. pub. (1753) common name: sundew

Named members of the Genus Drosera

1	Species  anglica Huds. common name: English sundew
2	Species  annua E.L. Reed syn. Drosera brevifolia
3	Species  brevifolia Pursh common name: dwarf sundew
4	Species  capillaris Poir. common name: pink sundew
5	Species  filiformis Raf.
	6    Varietas  tracyi (Macfarlane) Diels syn. Drosera tracyi
7	Species  intermedia Hayne common name: spoonleaf sundew
8	Species  leucantha Shinners syn. Drosera brevifolia
9	Species  linearis Goldie common name: slenderleaf sundew
10	Species  longifolia L. syn. Drosera anglica
11	Species  rotundifolia L. common name: sundew, Lus na Fearnaich  (Gaelic)
	12    Varietas  comosa Fern. common name: roundleaf sundew 13    Varietas  gracilis Laestad. common name: roundleaf sundew 14    Varietas  rotundifolia common name: roundleaf sundew
15	Species  tracyi Macfarlane common name: Tracy's sundew
16	Species  x belezeana E.G. Camus
17	Species  x hybrida Macfarlane (pro sp.)
18	Species  x obovata Mert. & Koch (pro sp.)

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.