Sundew family : DROSERACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

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Families 		Flowers in Australia
  
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
&
Christine Ashe
  
Plants in Australia Plant
Classes

Drosera auriculata
Lobed Sundew
Wonboyn, NSW
Photos: courtesy of
Paul Whitington

Drosera banksii
Banks' Sundew?
Queensland, December 2015

Drosera callistos
Pygmy Sundew
Western Australia,
September 2007

Drosera ericksoniae
Pink Sundew
Western Australia,
September 2007

Drosera peltata
Pale Sundew
Wonboyn, NSW
Photos: courtesy of
Paul Whitington

Drosera species
White Sundew
Western Australia,
September 2007

We know of one identified and two unidentified caterpillar species in Australia that attack plants in DROSERACEAE. The fact that the plants are carnivorous does not seem to deter them:


Spodoptera litura
  

PTEROPHORIDAE?
  

PSYCHIDAE?

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(updated 4 January 2013, 9 June 2015, 4 March 2016, 2 June 2020)