Drosera erythrorhiza
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About
A perennial tuberous sundew, *Drosera erythrorhiza* is notable for its rosette growth habit and its distinctive, many-flowered cymose inflorescences, which can bear up to 50 individual flowers.
Field notes
Morphology
The species grows in a rosette and is distinguished by its many-flowered cymose inflorescences with up to 50 individual flowers. Subspecies can vary in leaf shape and size, with subsp. magna having larger leaves and frequently more of them, while subsp. erythrorhiza has fewer, wider leaves.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to Western Australia.
History & etymology
First described by John Lindley in 1839 in his publication A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony. Later, N. G. Marchant and Allen Lowrie described three new subspecies in 1992.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Australia
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- intermediate