Planchon, J.E. (1848), Sur la famille des Droséracées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique ser. 3, 9: 285 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in colonia fluminis Cygnorum; Drummond in herb. Hook."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 458 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 7 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 13 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 207, Fig. A-B [secondary reference]

Erickson, R. (1968), Plants of Prey in Australia: 22 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. & George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Drosera. Flora of Australia 8: 63, Map 66 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 81 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Droseraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 152 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 229 [secondary reference]

common name: Shining Sundew [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 586 [secondary reference]

common name: Shining Sundew [n/a]

Lowrie, A. & Conran, J.G. (2007), A revision of the Drosera omissa/D. nitidula complex (Droseraceae) from south-west Western Australia. Taxon 56(2): 539-541, Fig. 6 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera nitidula Planch. subsp. nitidula legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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