''Drosera aberrans'' is a

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ous species in the genus ''

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'' that is native to

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. It grows in a rosette 3 to 5 cm in diameter with green, orange-yellow, or red leaves. It is native to southern inland South Australia, southern and central Victoria, and one single collection from New South Wales. It grows in a variety of soils from sand to laterite gravel and limestone clay in mallee woodland,

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, and open forests. It flowers from July to September.Lowrie, A, and J. G. Conran. 2008
A review of ''Drosera whittakeri'' s. lat. (Droseraceae) and description of a new species from Kangaroo Island, South Australia
''Telopea'', 12(2): 147-165. Drosera aberrans Victorian form

It was perhaps first illustrated by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1879, which he identified as ''Drosera whitackeri'' ic though

Allen Lowrie Allen Lowrie (10 October 1948 - 30 August 2021) was a Western Australian botanist. He was recognised for his expertise on the genera ''Drosera'' and '' Stylidium''.Council of Heads of Australasian HerbariaResources of Australian Herbaria: Western ...

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and may not have been drawn from an actual specimen. Lowrie and

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first formally described this

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in 1992 as a subspecies of '' Drosera whittakeri''. Lowrie and Conran reviewed the specimens of ''D. whittakeri'' in 2008 and elevated subsp. ''aberrans'' to species rank based on the colony-forming morphology of this species.

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* http://www.tuberous-drosera.net/aberrans.htm Carnivorous plants of Australia Caryophyllales of Australia aberrans Flora of New South Wales Flora of South Australia Flora of Victoria (state) Plants described in 1992 {{Australia-eudicot-stub

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