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Drosera, which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. [2] These members of the family Droseraceae [1] lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces.
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Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved sundew, [4] roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens.One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribution, being found in all of northern Europe, much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America, Korea and Japan but is also found as far south as ...
Drosera anglica, commonly known as the English sundew [3] or great sundew, [4] is a carnivorous flowering plant species belonging to the sundew family Droseraceae.It is a temperate species with a circumboreal range, [2] although it does occur as far south as Japan, southern Europe, and the island of Kauai in Hawaii, where it grows as a tropical sundew.
Droseraceae is a family of carnivorous flowering plants, also known as the sundew family.It consists of approximately 180 species in three extant genera, the vast majority being in the sundew genus Drosera.
Species Authority Year a Vernacular name Distribution [1] Image Drosera aberrans (Lowrie & Carlquist) Lowrie & Conran2008: Australia: Drosera acaulis: L.f. 1781: South Africa: Drosera adelae
Drosera indica, sometimes known as the Indian sundew, [1] is a species of sundew native to tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar and tropical and subtropical Asia. [2] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753. [ 3 ]
Drosera peltata, commonly called the shield sundew [1] or pale sundew, [2] [3] is a climbing or scrambling perennial tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera.Among the tuberous sundews, D. peltata has the largest distribution, which includes eastern and western Australia, New Zealand, India, and most of Southeast Asia including the Philippines.