{{short description|Species of carnivorous plant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox | image = Drosera whittakeri ssp aberransFloweringPlant1.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Drosera | display_parents = 2 | parent = Drosera sect. Erythrorhiza | species = aberrans | authority = (Lowrie & Carlquist) Lowrie & Conran | synonyms = *''D.&nbsp;whittakeri''&nbsp;subsp.&nbsp;''aberrans'' <small>Lowrie&nbsp;&&nbsp;Carlquist</small> |range_map = Drosera aberransDistMap1.png |range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH }}

'''''Drosera aberrans''''' is a perennial tuberous species in the genus ''Drosera'' that is native to New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria. It grows in a rosette 3 to 5&nbsp;cm in diameter with green, orange-yellow, or red leaves. It is native to southern inland South Australia, southern and central Victoria, and one single collection from New South Wales. It grows in a variety of soils from sand to laterite gravel and limestone clay in mallee woodland, heathland, and open forests. It flowers from July to September.<ref name="Lowrie & Conran 2008">Lowrie, A, and J. G. Conran. 2008. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091004230457/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/95400/Tel122147Low.pdf A review of ''Drosera whittakeri'' s. lat. (Droseraceae) and description of a new species from Kangaroo Island, South Australia]. ''Telopea'', 12(2): 147-165.</ref>

== Botanical history == left|thumb|''Drosera aberrans'', typical form from Victoria, Australia. This is the form sold for many years by Dingley Home and Garden, later Triffid Park nurseries

It was perhaps first illustrated by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1879, which he identified as ''Drosera&nbsp;whitackeri'' [sic], though Allen Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran note that this could represent artistic license and may not have been drawn from an actual specimen. Lowrie and Sherwin Carlquist first formally described this taxon in 1992 as a subspecies of ''Drosera whittakeri''. Lowrie and Conran reviewed the specimens of ''D.&nbsp;whittakeri'' in 2008 and elevated subsp.&nbsp;''aberrans'' to species rank based on the colony-forming morphology of this species.<ref name="Lowrie & Conran 2008" />

== See also == *List of ''Drosera'' species

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons-inline|italic=1}} * http://www.tuberous-drosera.net/aberrans.htm

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Category:Carnivorous plants of Australia Category:Caryophyllales of Australia aberrans Category:Flora of New South Wales Category:Flora of South Australia Category:Flora of Victoria (state) Category:Plants described in 1992 Category:Taxa named by Allen Lowrie Category:Taxa named by Sherwin Carlquist

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