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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Drosera spatulata Labill.

D. spathulata Labill. Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1, 1804, 79, t. 106.

Type locality: South- port, Tasmania, Labillardière.

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.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland to subalpine bogs, local.

FL.- FT. 11-2. Plants of higher altitudes smaller in all parts, with few to solitary fls.

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