Labillardière, J.J.H. de (September 1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(9-10): 79, t. 106, fig. 1 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in capite Van-Diemen."

Schultes, J.A. in Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1820), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 6: 762 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 60, 223 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 459 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 74 [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]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 47 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. in Engler, H.G.A. (1906), Droseraceae. Das Pflanzenreich 26: 83 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Gegend von Southport an sumpfigen Stellen (Labillardière ...)"

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 41 [secondary reference]

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

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 58, 59, Plate XXIX, 237 [secondary reference]

common name: Sundews [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Drosera lovelliae F.M.Bailey legitimate

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

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 184-185 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 149 [secondary reference]

Erickson, R. (1968), Plants of Prey in Australia: 31 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 187 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 98 [secondary reference]

common name: Spoon-leaf Sundew [n/a]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 110 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. & George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Drosera. Flora of Australia 8: 19 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera lovelliae F.M.Bailey legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Droseraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 192-193, Fig. 28D [secondary reference]

• Text: D. lovellae F.M.Bailey ..... appears to be an aberrant form of this species.

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Droseraceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 495, Plate 27 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Droseraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 358-359, pl. 9a, Fig. 73d [secondary reference]

common name: Rosy Sundew [n/a]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Droseraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 495, Plate 27 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 153 [secondary reference]

common name: Spoon-leaf Sundew [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera spathulata Schult. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Drosera lovelliae F.M.Bailey legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

orthographic variant: Drosera spathulata Schult. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Drosera lovelliae F.M.Bailey legitimate

• APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in Tas.
• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Drosera spathulata Schult. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Drosera lovellae F.M.Bailey orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Drosera lovelliae F.M.Bailey legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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