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The genus Drosera is in the family Droseraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Drosera

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Drosera aberrans (Lowrie & Carlquist) Lowrie & Conran	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera acaulis L.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera adelae F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera admirabilis Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera affinis Welw. ex Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera afra Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera alba E.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera aliciae Raym.-Hamet	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera allantostigma (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Lowrie & Conran	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera andersoniana Fitzg. ex Ewart & Jean White	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera anglica Huds.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera arcturi Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera arenicola Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera atrostyla Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera auriculata Backh. ex Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × badgerupii Cheek	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera banksii R.Br. ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera barbigera Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × beleziana E.G.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera bequaertii Taton	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera bicolor Lowrie & Carlquist	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera biflora Willd. ex Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera binata Labill.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera brevicornis Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera brevifolia Pursh	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera broomensis Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera browniana Lowrie & N.G.Marchant	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera bulbigena Morrison	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera bulbosa Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera burkeana Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera burmanni Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera caduca Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera callistos N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera camporupestris Rivadavia	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera capensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera capillaris Poir.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera cayennensis Sagot ex Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera cendeensis Tamayo & Croizat	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera chrysochila Schlauer	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera chrysolepis Taub.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera cistiflora L.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera citrina Lowrie & Carlquist	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera closterostigma N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera coccipetala Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera collinsiae N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera communis A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × corinthiaca R.A.Gibson & E.Green	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera cuneifolia L.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera darwinensis Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera derbyensis Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera dichrosepala Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera dielsiana Exell & J.R.Laundon	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera dilatatopetiolaris Kondô	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera echinoblastus N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera elongata Exell & J.R.Laundon	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera eneabba N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera ericksoniae N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera erythrogyne N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera erythrorhiza Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera esterhuyseniae (T.M.Salter) Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera falconeri Kondô & P.Tsang	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera filiformis Raf.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera fimbriata DeBuhr	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera gibsonii P.Mann	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera gigantea Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera glabripes (Harv. ex Planch.) Stein	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera glanduligera Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera graminifolia A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera graniticola N.G.Marchant	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera grantsaui Rivadavia	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera graomogolensis T.R.S.Silva	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera grievei Lowrie & N.G.Marchant	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera hamiltonii C.R.P.Andrews	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera hartmeyerorum Schlauer	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera helodes N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera heterophylla Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera hilaris Cham. & Schltdl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera hirticalyx Duno de Stefano & Culham	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera huegelii Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera humbertii Exell & J.R.Laundon	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera humilis Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × hybrida Macfarl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera hyperostigma N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera incisa A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera indica L.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera insolita Taton	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera intermedia Hayne	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera intricata Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera kaieteurensis Brumm.-Ding.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera kansaiensis Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera katangensis Taton	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera kenneallyi Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera lanata Kondô	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera lasiantha Lowrie & Carlquist	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera leucoblasta Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera leucostigma (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Lowrie & Conran	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera linearis Goldie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera liniflora Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera longiscapa Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera lowriei N.G.Marchant	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera macrantha Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera macrophylla Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera madagascariensis DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera mannii Cheek	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera marchantii DeBuhr	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera menziesii R.Br. ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera meristocaulis Maguire & Wurdack	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera microphylla Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera moaensis Panfet	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera modesta Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera montana A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera moorei (Diels) Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera myriantha Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera natalensis Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera neesii Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera neocaledonica Raym.-Hamet	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera nidiformis Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera nitidula Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera oblanceolata Y.Z.Ruan	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × obovata Mert. & W.D.J.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera occidentalis Morrison	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera orbiculata N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera ordensis Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera oreopodion N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera paleacea DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pallida Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera paradoxa Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera parvula Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera patens Lowrie & Conran	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pauciflora Banks ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pedicellaris Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera peltata Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera peruensis T.R.S.Silva & M.D.Correa	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera petiolaris R.Br. ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pilosa Exell & J.R.Laundon	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera platypoda Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera platystigma Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera porrecta Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera prolifera C.T.White	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera prostrata (N.G.Marchant & Lowrie) Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera prostratoscaposa Lowrie & Carlquist	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pulchella Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera purpurascens Schlotth.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pycnoblasta Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera pygmaea DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera radicans N.G.Marchant	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera ramellosa Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera ramentacea Burch. ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera rechingeri Strid	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera regia Stephens	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera roraimae (Klotzsch ex Diels) Maguire & J.R.Laundon	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera rotundifolia L.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera rubrifolia Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera rubripetala Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera rupicola (N.G.Marchant) Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera salina N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera schizandra Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera schmutzii Lowrie & Conran	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera schwackei (Diels) Rivadavia	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera scorpioides Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera sessilifolia A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × sidjamesii Lowrie & Conran	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera slackii Cheek	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera solaris A.Fleischm., Wistuba & S.McPherson	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera spatulata Labill.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera spilos N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera stenopetala Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera stolonifera Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera stricticaulis (Diels) O.H.Sarg.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera subhirtella Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera subtilis N.G.Marchant	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera tentaculata Rivadavia	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera × tokaiensis (Komiya & Shibata) T.Nakam. & K.Ueda	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera trinervia Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera tubistylis N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera uniflora Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera variegata Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera venusta Debbert	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera villosa A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera viridis Rivadavia	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera walyunga N.G.Marchant & Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera whittakeri Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera yutajensis Duno de Stefano & Culham	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera zigzag Lowrie	Accepted		WCSP
Drosera zonaria Planch.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 320 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Drosera. Of these 185 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 138 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Drosera. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 320 species names for the genus Drosera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	185	57.8%
◕	Synonym	124	38.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	9	2.8%

All names

The status of the 458 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Drosera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	219	47.8%
◕	Synonym	228	49.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	9	2.0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 10 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 320 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Drosera, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	185	122	0	0	307	95.9%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	0.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	9	11	3.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Drosera, are as follows: