Drosera anglica

Drosera anglica

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Subgenus: Drosera subg. Drosera
Section: Drosera sect. Drosera
Species:
D. anglica
Binomial name
Drosera anglica
Synonyms
List
    • Adenopa anglica (Huds.) Raf.
    • Drosera anglica f. pusilla Kihlm. ex Diels
    • Drosera anglica var. subuniflora DC.
    • Drosera kihlmanii Ikonn.
    • Drosera longifolia L.
    • Drosera longifolia var. major Wahlenb.
    • Drosera longifolia var. major Wahlenb.
    • Drosera longifolia var. vulgaris W.D.J.Koch
    • Drosera macedonica Košanin
    • Drosera septentrionalis var. oblongifolia Stokes
    • Rorella longifolia (L.) All.

Drosera anglica, commonly known as the English sundew or great sundew, is a carnivorous flowering plant species belonging to the sundew family Droseraceae. It is a temperate species with a circumboreal range, although it does occur as far south as Japan, southern Europe, and the island of Kauai in Hawaii, where it grows as a tropical sundew. It is thought to originate from an amphidiploid hybrid of D. rotundifolia and D. linearis, meaning that a sterile hybrid between these two species doubled its chromosomes to produce fertile progeny which stabilized into the current D. anglica.