{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox | image = Droseramacrophylla.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Drosera | display_parents = 2 | parent = Drosera sect. Erythrorhiza | species = macrophylla | authority = Lindl. | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision = *''D. macrophylla'' subsp. ''macrophylla'' <small>Lindl.</small> *''D. macrophylla'' subsp. ''monantha'' <small>Lowrie & Carlquist</small> }}
'''''Drosera macrophylla''''', the '''showy sundew''',<ref name="FloraBase">{{FloraBase|id=3107|name=''Drosera macrophylla''}}</ref> is a perennial tuberous species in the genus ''Drosera'' that is endemic to Western Australia. It grows in a rosette with leaves {{convert|4|cm|0|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|2|cm|0|abbr=on}} wide. It is a common species east of Perth. It grows in loam soils. It flowers from June to October. ''D. macrophylla'' was first described by John Lindley in his 1839 publication ''A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony''. In 1992, Allen Lowrie and Sherwin Carlquist described a new subspecies, ''D. macrophylla'' subsp. ''monantha'', which is distinguished from ''D. macrophylla'' subsp. ''macrophylla'' by its single-flowered or rarely biflowered inflorescences. Subspecies ''monantha'' is abundant in the Bruce Rock/Merredin region.<ref name="Lowrie and Carlquist 1992">Lowrie, A. and S. Carlquist. 1992. Eight new taxa of ''Drosera'' from Australia. ''Phytologia'', 73(2): 98-116.</ref> The specific epithet ''macrophylla'' originates from Greek words ''makros'' (large) and ''phyllon'' (leaf) meaning 'large-leaved'.
== See also == *List of ''Drosera'' species
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *{{FloraBase|id=13387|name=''Drosera macrophylla'' subsp. ''macrophylla''}} *{{FloraBase|id=13388|name=''Drosera macrophylla'' subsp. ''monantha''}}
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Category:Carnivorous plants of Australia Category:Caryophyllales of Australia macrophylla Category:Eudicots of Western Australia Category:Plants described in 1839
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