Scented Sundew

Drosera aberrans

"Drosera aberrans" is a perennial tuberous species in the genus "Drosera" that is native to New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria. It grows in a rosette 3 to 5 cm in diameter with green, orange-yellow, or red leaves. It is native to southern inland South Australia, southern and central Victoria, and one single collection from New South Wales.
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Naming

It was perhaps first illustrated by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1879, which he identified as "Drosera whitackeri" [sic], though Allen Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran note that this could represent artistic license and may not have been drawn from an actual specimen. Lowrie and Sherwin Carlquist first formally described this taxon in 1992 as a subspecies of "Drosera whittakeri". Lowrie and Conran reviewed the specimens of "D. whittakeri" in 2008 and elevated subsp. "aberrans" to species rank based on the colony-forming morphology of this species.
Scented Sundew This species of Sundew had a rosette of rounded short-stalked leaves with red tipped glandular hairs. Each rosette had a single large white 5-petaled flower which seemed larger large in relation to the rosette of leaves. An attractive little plant. Spotted along sides tracks on compacted moss covered soil - Cardinia Reservoir Park. Australia,Drosera aberrans,Geotagged,Winter

Habitat

It grows in a variety of soils from sand to laterite gravel and limestone clay in mallee woodland, heathland, and open forests. It flowers from July to September.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderCaryophyllales
FamilyDroseraceae
GenusDrosera
SpeciesD. aberrans
Photographed in
Australia