Drosera finlaysoniana
Wall. ex Arn.Tuber absent. Stem simple, up to 50 cm long, flexile, pubescent. Leaves cauline, sessile, scattered, basal leaves recurved, central leaves spreading, upper leaves ascending; lamina narrowly linear, to c. 15 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, margins strongly revolute, petiole absent; stipules absent. Inflorescence cauline, lateral, spreading to ascending, a 1-sided scorpioid cyme, to c. 50 cm long, 3–25-flowered; peduncle to 50 cm long; bracts linear, 1–3 mm long; pedicels 6–18 mm long; sepals 5, ovate to narrowly oblong, 2–5 mm long, glandular, margin entire to serrulate, apex acute; petals 5, ovate to cuneate-obovate, 4–12 mm long, pink, orange or white; styles 3, each 2.5–5 mm long, each once divided from base to form 6 thickened ascending lobes.
RobP. Also WA, Qld, NSW. In Victoria, collected only from Eucalyptus camaldulensis-E. largiflorens woodlands subject to flooding at Hattah Lakes, but probably more widespread in suitable habitat. .
Conn, B.J. (1996). Droseraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 356–361. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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Barrett, R.L.; Lowrie, A. (2013). Typification and application of names in Drosera sections Arachnopus (Droseraceae) . Nuytsia 23: 527–541.
Lowrie, A.; Nunn, R.; Robinson, A.; Bourke, G.; McPherson, S.; Fleischmann, A. (2017). Drosera of the World . Redfern Natural History Productions , Poole, Dorset, England .
