Drosera macrophylla

Drosera macrophylla, the showy sundew,^[1] is a perennial tuberous species in the genus Drosera that is endemic to Western Australia. It grows in a rosette with leaves 4 cm (2 in) long and 2 cm (1 in) wide. It is a common species east of Perth. It grows in loam soils. It flowers from June to October. D. macrophylla was first described by John Lindley in his 1839 publication A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony. In 1992, Allen Lowrie and Sherwin Carlquist described a new subspecies, D. macrophylla subsp. monantha, which is distinguished from D. macrophylla subsp. macrophylla by its single-flowered or rarely biflowered inflorescences. Subspecies monantha is abundant in the Bruce Rock/Merredin region.^[2] The specific epithet macrophylla originates from Greek words makros (large) and phyllon (leaf) meaning 'large-leaved'.

Drosera macrophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Droseraceae
Genus:	Drosera
Subgenus:	Drosera subg. Ergaleium
Section:	Drosera sect. Erythrorhiza
Species:	D. macrophylla
Binomial name
Drosera macrophylla Lindl.
Subspecies
D. macrophylla subsp. macrophylla Lindl. D. macrophylla subsp. monantha Lowrie & Carlquist

See also

• List of Drosera species