''Drosera dilatato-petiolaris'' 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 ...

in the genus ''

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 ...

'' and is

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, being found in both

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and the

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. Its leaves are arranged in a rosette and commonly produces plantlets, eventually forming large clumps that can be over across. Green petioles emerging from the center of the rosette are typically 3–5 mm wide, but can vary. Red carnivorous leaves at the end of the petioles are small and round, with most resting on the soil surface.

Inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

s are long with white flowers being produced from April to May.Lowrie, A. 1990
The ''Drosera petiolaris'' complex.
'' Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'', 19(3-4): 65-72.Lowrie, A. 1996
New species in ''Drosera'' section ''Lasiocephala'' (Droseraceae) from tropical northern Australia.
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Nuytsia ''Nuytsia floribunda'' is a hemiparasitic tree found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as moodjar and, more recently, the Christmas tree or Western Australian Christmas tree. The display of intensely bright flowers during the ...

'', 11(1): 55–69.D'Amato, P. 1998. '' The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants''. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California. pp. 145-146. It has a

diploid Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Sets of chromosomes refer to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, respectively ...

chromosome number of ''2n'' = 12.Hoshi, Yoshikazu. 2002
Chromosome studies in ''Drosera'' (Droseraceae).
''Proceedings of the 4th International Carnivorous Plant Conference''. pp. 31–38. ''Drosera dilatato-petiolaris'' is found in damp sandy soils on higher ground than '' Drosera petiolaris'' is found. It is native to coastal areas near Darwin in the Northern Territory and the northern

Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia * Kimberley (Western Australia) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley * Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania * Kimberley, Tasmania a small town * County of Kimberley, a ...

region of Western Australia. It was first recognised and illustrated by

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 ...

in his 1906 monograph on 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 ...

, but was not formally described until 1984 when

Katsuhiko Kondo Katsuhiko (written: 勝彦, 克彦 or 勝比古) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese chemist *, Japanese handball player *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese sumo wrestler *Katsuhiko Kinoshita K ...

authored three new species in the ''Drosera petiolaris'' complex.

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