''Drosera neesii'', the jewel rainbowErickson, Rica. 1968. ''Plants of Prey in Australia''. Lamb Paterson Pty. Ltd.: Osborne Park, Western Australia. is an erect or twining perennial tuberous species in the

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 ...

genus '' Drosera''. It is endemic to Western Australia and grows near swamps or granite outcrops in sand, clay, or

laterite Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...

. ''D. neesii'' produces small, cup-shaped carnivorous leaves in groups of three along stems that can be high. Pink flowers bloom from August to December. ''Drosera neesii'' was first described by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann in 1844. The first infraspecific taxon was described when George Bentham reduced '' D. sulphurea'' to a variety, a decision which was later reversed. Then in 1982,

N. G. Marchant Neville Graeme Marchant (born 1939) is a retired Western Australian botanist. He was formerly the Director of the Western Australian Herbarium. Marchant began working for the Western Australian Herbarium at the age of 15, as a laboratory assist ...

described a new subspecies, ''D. neesii'' subsp. ''borealis'', which is only found in the species' northern range.Schlauer, J. 2009
World Carnivorous Plant List - Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants
. Accessed online: 29 August 2009.

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Carnivorous plants of Australia Caryophyllales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1844 neesii {{WesternAustralia-plant-stub

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