Planchon, J.E. (1848), Sur la famille des Droséracées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique ser. 3, 9: 295 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drosera petiolaris Sieb. Herb., no. 176 (in herb. Hook cum speciminibus D. peltatae commixta), non D. petiolaris Br. ... in Novae Hollandiae extratropicae ora orientali et australi, nec non in insulis Van Diemen et Novae Zeelandiae. – Nova Cambria, prope Sydney; Sieb., no. 176 (pro parte); Backhouse in herb. Hook. – Ora australis Novae Holl. ad Encounter bay; Whittaker, ibid. – Insula Van Diemen prope Hobart Town Hook fil.; Circular head, Gunn, no. 350; New Norfolk, Gunn, no. 350. Graves valley; Gunn, no. 1075. – Novae Zeelandiae Insula septentrionalis; Hook fil.; Colenso in herb. Hook."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 61-62, 223 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Drosera peltata Sm. ex Willd. nom. illeg. by Willdenow, C.L. (July 1798), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 1(2): 1546

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 465 [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 (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 4 [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]

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, 230 [secondary reference]

common name: Sun Dew [n/a]

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

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

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 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: 44-46 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 190, 182B (flower). [secondary reference]

common name: Sundew [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 188, Fig. 46 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 730 [secondary reference]

• Comment: Cited as Drosera auriculata Backh.

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

Conn, B.J. (29 April 1981), The Drosera peltata - D. auriculata complex. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 3 (1): 98 [basionym]

basionym of: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate

Marchant, N.G. & George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Drosera. Flora of Australia 8: 24, 26, Map 16 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (June 1983), A list of the vascular plants of South Australia 1: 31 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drosera peltata var. auriculata Jessop nom. inval., pro syn.

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

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Droseraceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 494 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Droseraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 358 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate

Chrtek, J. & Slavikova, Z. (2000), Genera and families of the Droserales order. Novitates Botanicae ex Universitate Carolina 13: 43 [basionym]

basionym of: Sondera auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) Chrtek & Slavikova legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Droseraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 494 [secondary reference]

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera peltata var. auriculata Jessop nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sondera auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) Chrtek & Slavikova legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera peltata var. auriculata Jessop nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Comment: Treated as Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata in Vic.
• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Gibson, R., Conn, B.J. & Bruhl, J.J. (9 March 2012), Morphological evaluation of the Drosera peltata complex (Droseraceae). Australian Systematic Botany 25(1): 64-65, Figs 6, 8 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here chosen): Australia: New South Wales: 'prope Sydney', Herb. Sieber No. 176 (K215087 - right specimen); isolecto. (K215087 - left specimen)

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera circinervia Colenso legitimate taxonomic synonym: Drosera stylosa Colenso legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 36 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Drosera peltata subsp. auriculata (Backh. ex Planch.) B.J.Conn legitimate

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