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Drosera dichrosepala

Species of carnivorous plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drosera dichrosepala, commonly known as the rusty sundew, is a pygmy sundew from Western Australia. It is a carnivorous plant. The specific epithet dichrosepala is a combination of the Greek words dis, meaning double, and chroia, meaning colour, as well as the Latin sepalum meaning sepal, it refers to the plant's sepals being bi-coloured.[3] It has two subspecies: D. dichrosepala ssp.dichrosepala and D. dichrosepala ssp. enodes.[4]

Drosera dichrosepala subsp. enodes

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Rusty sundew
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Subgenus: Drosera subg. Bryastrum
Section: Drosera sect. Lamprolepis
Species:
D. dichrosepala
Binomial name
Drosera dichrosepala
Synonyms[2]

Drosera scorpioides var. brevipes

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