''Drosera burmanni'', the tropical sundew,Erickson, Rica. 1968. ''Plants of Prey in Australia''. Lamb Paterson Pty. Ltd.: Osborne Park, Western Australia. is a small, compact species in the

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Drosera ''Drosera'', which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genus, genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. 2 volumes. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucil ...

''. Its natural geographical range includes the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Australia, India, Japan, southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa and China's Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan. It normally spans only in diameter. It is one of the fastest trapping sundews as well, and its leaves can curl around an insect in only a few seconds, compared to the minutes or hours it takes other sundews to surround their prey. In nature, ''D. burmanni'' is an

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, but in cultivation, when grown indoors during the cold months, it can live for many years. Since ''D. burmanni'' is an annual, it produces large amounts of seed. ''Drosera burmanni'' has been considered a powerful

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.Lewis, Walter H., 1977 ''Medical Botany - Plants Affecting Man's Health''. John Wiley & Sons, St. Louis, Missouri. ''Drosera burmanni'' is an herb that produces very short stems and leaves in a rosette. Each wedge-shaped leaf is typically 8–10 mm long and 5–6 mm wide. White flowers are produced in groups of 3 to 10 on tall

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s, of which there can be one to three per plant.Marchant, N. G., and George, A. S. 1982. Droseraceae. ''Flora of Australia'', Vol. 8. pp. 9-64. The first brief description of the species was written by Paul Hermann and published after Hermann's death by

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in ''Musaeum Zeylanicum''. It was described in more detail by

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in his 1737 publication on the flora of

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. Burman used the polynomial ''Ros solis foliis circa radicem in orbem dispositis'',Burman, Johannes. 1737
Thesaurus zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes.
Amsterdam. p. 207. but the species was not formally published until 1794 when

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named it in honor of Burman as ''Drosera burmanni'' (the species epithet is usually

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corrected to ''burmannii''). In 1871

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described a new species, ''D. dietrichiana'', named after its discoverer

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. In his 1906

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of the

Droseraceae Droseraceae is a family (biology), family of carnivorous flowering plants, also known as the sundew family. It consists of approximately 180 species in three Extant taxon, extant genera. Representatives of the Droseraceae are found on all conti ...

Ludwig Diels Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist. Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Prit ...

reduced this species to a

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of ''D. burmanni.'' This variety was described as being a larger and more robust plant than ''D. burmanni'' var. ''burmanni.'' Both ''D. dietrichiana'' and the variety are now considered synonyms of ''D. burmanni''.Schlauer, J. 2009
World Carnivorous Plant List - Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants
Accessed online: 12 September 2009.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q135663 Carnivorous plants of Asia Carnivorous plants of Australia Caryophyllales of Australia burmannii Eudicots of Western Australia Flora of Bangladesh Flora of Thailand Flora of Vietnam Flora of Malesia Flora of New Guinea Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 1794 Taxa named by Martin Vahl

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