syn_novataxa: [Botany • 2016] The First Record of the Boreal Bog Species Drosera rotundifolia (Droseraceae) from the Philippines, and A Key to the Philippine Sundews

[Botany • 2016] The First Record of the Boreal Bog Species Drosera rotundifolia (Droseraceae) from the Philippines, and A Key to the Philippine Sundews

Fig. 1 a. Single population of Drosera rotundifolia on the Philippines at 1881 m on Mt Limbawon;
b. habit of D. rotundifolia with leaves submerged in water, same location.

— Photos by Fulgent Coritico. DOI: 10.3767/000651916X691330

Abstract

Drosera rotundifolia, a species of the temperate Northern Hemisphere with a disjunct occurrence in high montane West Papua, has been discovered in a highland peat bog on Mt Limbawon, Pantaron Range, Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao, Philippines, which mediates to the only other known tropical, Southern Hemisphere location in New Guinea and the closest known northern populations in southern Japan and south-eastern China. A dichotomous key to the seven Drosera species of the Philippines is given, and distribution maps are provided.

Keywords: Drosera; Droseraceae; Malesia; Mindanao; Northern Hemisphere - Tropics disjunction; Philippines; carnivorous plants

F.P. Coritico and A. Fleischmann. 2016. The First Record of the Boreal Bog Species Drosera rotundifolia (Droseraceae) from the Philippines, and A Key to the Philippine Sundews. Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants. DOI: 10.3767/000651916X691330