Planchon, J.E. (1848), Sur la famille des Droséracées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique ser. 3, 9: 302 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Novae-Hollandiae ora meridionali ad Port-Phillips; Gunn no. 6 in herb. Hook. et ad Encounter-bay; Whittaker ibid."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 56-57, Suppl. pl. 6 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera rosulata Lehm. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 462 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1879), The Native Plants of Victoria 1: 53 [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]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 258, Fig. 125 A-C [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 390, Fig. 548A-C [secondary reference]

Erickson, R. (1968), Plants of Prey in Australia: 27-28 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. & George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Drosera. Flora of Australia 8: 51, Map 50 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera praefolia Tepper legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera whittakeri var. praefolia (Tepper) J.M.Black legitimate

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

Chrtek, J. & Slavikova, Z. (2000), Genera and families of the Droserales order. Novitates Botanicae ex Universitate Carolina 13: 45 [basionym]

basionym of: Sondera whittakeri (Planch.) Chrtek & Slavikova legitimate

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

• APC Dist.: SA, Vic

Lowrie, A. & Conran, J.G. (11 November 2008), A review of Drosera whittakeri s. lat. (Droseraceae) and description of a new species from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Telopea 12(2): 162-164 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: here selected: South Australia: corner of Green Hill Road and Cemetery Road, Encounter Bay (35 32'25"S 138 36'23"E), A. Lowrie 2835 & D.E. Murfet, 8 Sept 2003 (neo: AD, isoneo: PERTH, MEL, K, HL).

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Drosera whittakerii Planch. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Drosera whittakeri Planch. var. whittakeri legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Drosera whittakeri Planch. subsp. whittakeri legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Drosera whittakerii Planch. orth. var. orthographic variant: Drosera whitackeri F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Drosera whittakeri Planch. var. whittakeri legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Drosera whittakeri Planch. subsp. whittakeri legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sondera whittakeri (Planch.) Chrtek & Slavikova legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA

Barker, R.M. & Lang, P.J. (10 July 2012), Name changes associated with the South Australian census of vascular plants for the calendar year 2011. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 25: 97 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera whittakeri Planch. subsp. whittakeri legitimate

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