Drosera spatulata Labill.
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Drosera spatulata Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. 1, 79, t. 106 (1805)
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Nomenclature
Labill.
Labill.
1805
79, t. 106
spathulata
ICN
Drosera spatulata Labill.
species
Drosera spatulata
Classification
Synonyms
Descriptions
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Stock very short. Lvs radical, rosulate; stipules membr., up to 7 mm. long; mostly trifid, segs laciniate; petiole up to 10 mm. long, glandular, gradually widening to the 5 mm. long obovate lamina clad in stalked glandular hairs. Peduncles solitary or few, glandular above, terminating in glandular racemes with up to 15 subsecund fls; pedicels very short. Sepals connate at base, lanceolate to oblong, 3-5 mm. long; petals white or rose, obovate, up to 6 mm. long, cuneately narrowed into claw. Style branches 3, bipartite to base. Capsule c. 1·5 mm. long.
Drosera spatulata Labill.
2n = 20
n = 10
2n = 20
Taxonomic concepts
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Drosera spatulata Labill.
Historic biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Drosera spatulata occurs naturally throughout Southeast Asia, in southern China and Japan, Micronesia, New Guinea through to the eastern territories of Australia and Tasmania and New Zealand. Several forms of no taxonomic status (or cultivars) have been named for material in cultivation, to distinguish material grown from different regions and countries, including D. spatulata "Formosa", D. spatulata "Kansai", D. spatulata "Kanto", and D. spatulata "Lovellae".
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Notes
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Drosera spatulata was first described by Jacques Labillardière in his 1805 publication Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. In 1820 D.spathulata was included in Schultes, J.A. (1820), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 6: 762 but misprinted as “Drosera spathulata”, an incorrect spelling that is still common today. De Candolle, A.P. 1824: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. 1: 318 also used the spelling "spathulata".The spelling “spathulata” seems to come from the similarly named Nepenthes spathulata. The Drosera species is “spatulata”.
In almost all other botanical names for "spoon shaped", the spelling is "spathulata" (like Nepenthes spathulata). But for some reason when D. spatulata was first described they spelt it without the "h". Since botanical names always go back to the first to describe the species, the correct version is D. spatulata.
The Latin (originally Greek) expressions "spatulata" and "spathulata" are both valid, and they can be used alternatively in an original description (protologue). But once published, it is the “original” spelling (in the line that continues of this particular word) that has to be retained.
Therefore, the name Nepenthes spathulata is as valid and correct as Drosera spatulata. Any alteration in these cases (e.g. "Nepenthes spatulata” or “Drosera spathulata") is to be treated like an orthographic error and to be corrected automatically (any nomenclaturally relevant text containing the wrong spelling has to be treated as if it were spelled correctly).
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1 January 2000
10 April 2007