Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Droseraceae
Genus
Drosera L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Drosera auriculata Backh. ex Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 2, Sér. 3: 295 (1848)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 3 (1981)
  • = Drosera circinervia Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 26: 314 (1893 [1894])
  • = Drosera stylosa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 593 (1895 [1896])
 Description

Stock slender, up to 5 cm. long, arising from small tuber. Stems slender, erect, flexuous, glab., up to 30 cm. or more long, often sub- scandent. Basal lvs rosulate; petioles flat, up to 10 mm. long; lamina orbicular, 3 mm. diam., or lvs reduced to scales. Cauline lvs alt.; petiole filiform, up to 15 mm. long; lamina peltate-lunate, pubescent, with marginal stalked glandular hairs. Peduncle simple, up to 10 cm. long; pedicels erect or ascending, ± 5 mm. long; bracts linear. Sepals elliptic- ovate, entire to erose, up to 5 mm. long; petals rose, obovate, up to 8 mm. long. Style branches 3, dichotomously divided, segs dilated. Capsule ± 2 mm. diam.; seeds minute.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Dec.; Fruiting: Oct.–Jan.

 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1894: Phænogams: A description of some newly-discovered Indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 26: 313–320.
Colenso, W. 1896: Phænogams: A description of a few more newly-discovered indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 591–613.
Conn, B.J. 1981: The Drosera peltata-D. auriculata complex. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 3: 91–100.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Gibson, R.; Conn, B.J.; Bruhl, J.J. 2012: Morphological evaluation of the Drosera peltata complex (Droseraceae). Australian Systematic Botany 25(49): 80.
Planchon, J.E. 1848: Sur la famille des Droséracées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique sér. 2, Sér. 3: 79–98, 185–207, 285–309.