Drosera roraimae

Species of carnivorous plant

Drosera roraimae

Drosera roraimae on Mount Roraima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Order:  | Caryophyllales
Family:  | Droseraceae
Genus:  | Drosera
Subgenus:  | Drosera subg. Drosera
Section:  | Drosera sect. Drosera
Species:  |

D. roraimae

Binomial name
Drosera roraimae

(Klotzsch ex Diels) Maguire & Laundon

Synonyms

* Drosera montana var. roraimae
Klotzsch ex Diels
* Drosera montana var. robusta
Diels

Drosera roraimae is a sundew native to Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. It was originally described as a variety of Drosera montana before being raised to species rank in 1957.[1]

The specific epithet roraimae refers to Mount Roraima, a tepui or table-top mountain, where the type specimen was collected.[1]

## See also

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* List of Drosera species
* Taxonomy of Drosera

## References

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1. ^ a b Schlauer, J. N.d. Drosera roraimae Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Carnivorous Plant Database.

## External links

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Media related to Drosera roraimae at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Drosera roraimae|

* Wikidata: Q1094039
* Wikispecies: Drosera roraimae
* CoL: 6DKH5
* EoL: 5471204
* GBIF: 3191122
* iNaturalist: 549235
* IPNI: 321955-1
* Open Tree of Life: 3943386
* Plant List: kew-64557
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:84174-2
* Tropicos: 11400105
* WFO: wfo-0000946151

Drosera montana var. roraimae|

* Wikidata: Q38826356
* IPNI: 84170-2
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:84170-2
* Tropicos: 50005500
* WFO: wfo-0000946051

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