Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1824), Droseraceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 1: 318 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Nova-Hollandia prope Endeavour-river (v.s. in h. Banks)."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 460-461 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera fulva Planch. legitimate

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]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 174 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 701 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera fulva Planch. legitimate

Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (March 1953), Droseraceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(4): 379 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 322 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 231 [secondary reference]

Erickson, R. (1968), Plants of Prey in Australia: 50 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 236 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. (30 December 1980), A review of Drosera in Papuasia. Brunonia 3(2): 214-215 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Droseraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 90 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. & George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Drosera. Flora of Australia 8: 20-22, Fig 5, Map 14 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera fulva Planch. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera petiolaris var. conferta Domin legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 114 [secondary reference]

common name: Woolly Sundew [n/a]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 28 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Droseraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 238-240 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 97 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera petiolaris DC. var. petiolaris legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera petiolaris var. conferta Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 10 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Excluded taxon. See Lowrie (2013b). [Lowrie, A. (2013). Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus 2: 708.]"

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera petiolaris DC. var. petiolaris legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera petiolaris var. conferta Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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