''Drosera stricticaulis'', the erect sundew, is an erect

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ous species in the

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''. It is

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and is found near watercourses and granite outcrops in sandy clay or

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. ''D. stricticaulis'' produces small, cup-shaped carnivorous leaves along green, glandular stems that can be high. Pink flowers bloom from July to October. ''Drosera stricticaulis'' was first described by

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in 1906 as a variety of '' D. macrantha''. In 1913, Oswald Hewlett Sargent elevated the variety to species rank.Schlauer, J. 2009
World Carnivorous Plant List - Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants
. Accessed online: 2 September 2009. A recently described infraspecific taxon under ''D. macrantha'', ''D. macrantha'' subsp. ''eremaea'', was described in 1992 by N. G. Marchant and

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but reclassified as a subspecies of ''D. stricticaulis'' in 1996 when

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to the genus.Schlauer, J. 1996
A dichotomous key to the genus ''Drosera'' L. (Droseraceae)
''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'', 25(3): 67-88. Other authorities, such as Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation's FloraBase still recognize subspecies ''eremaea'' under ''D. macrantha''.

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