Drosera Dichrosepala
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''Drosera dichrosepala'', commonly known as the rusty sundew, is a pygmy sundew from Western Australia. It is a
carnivorous plant Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans Protozoa (singular: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a group of single-celled eukaryot ...
. 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. It has two subspecies: ''D. dichrosepala'' ssp.''dichrosepala'' and ''D. dichrosepala'' ssp. ''enodes''.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q1260413 Carnivorous plants of Australia dichrosepala Eudicots of Western Australia Caryophyllales of Australia