Drosera auriculata Backh. ex Planch.

Description: Tuberous herb. Plants usually olive-green in exposed locations, rarely richly maroon; tuber ovoid to globose, up to 10 × 8 mm; surface white to red, often in a papery sheath; vertical stolon 20–80 mm long. Stem erect, usually simple, sometimes shortly branched, 90–600 mm long, glabrous. Leaves often in a flat basal rosette and cauline; basal leaves 4–19, the lamina ovate, elliptic, orbicular or reniform, 1.8–3.5 × 2–6 mm wide on a linear petiole 5.0–17.0 × 1.2 mm wide; 9–36 cauline leaves alternate, the lamina crescentic, 1.5–5.5 × 2.0–5.5 mm, with acute angles, on petiole 3–23 mm long. Inflorescence a 1-sided raceme 2–14-flowered; peduncle usually 6–50 mm long, but up to 80 mm; pedicels 1–14 mm long. Sepals 2.0–6.0 × 0.9–2.6 mm, ovate, elliptic and rarely obovate, glabrous with an entire to irregularly serrulate margin. Petals 3.0–10.0 × 1.5–5 mm, white or pink, obovate, cuneate, apex emarginate, sometimes obtuse and rarely truncate. Styles 3, 0.6–1.4 mm long, divided into a total of c.15–30 cylindrical segments. Seeds 0.8–1.6 mm long, cylindrical with a shallowly reticulated surface. ³

Accession # 200500081
Source: Matt Opel ex ICPS seedbank
Accession Date: 09-07-2005
Bench: 2310 - Temperate Carnivores
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-17-2025

This accession has been observed in bloom on:

EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New South Wales / Queensland / South Australia / Tasmania / Victoria / New Zealand North / New Zealand South

The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 24 February 2015.
WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 24 February 2015.
Drosera auriculata at New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. Last accessed on Friday, 29 March 2019.

data regenerated on Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:15:02 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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