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Drosera adelae F.Muell.

Droseraceae

Climate known 33 photographs Carnivorous plant
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Summary

Drosera adelae, commonly known as the lance-leaved sundew, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Drosera that is endemic to Queensland, Australia.

Text from Wikipedia, “Drosera adelae”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Drosera

Drosera, which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which the plants grow. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Drosera”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Droseraceae
Described by
F.Muell.
Native to
Queensland
Wild records
26 in range· 20 open

At a glance

Warmest month
29°C
Dec, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2251mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Feb 474 mm (CHELSA)
Light
24–42DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Drosera, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to October in the northern hemisphere (December to April at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 2251 mm a year, wettest February at 474 mm, driest August at 44 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 42 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 8.2 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Cultivation

Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Drosera, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to October in the northern hemisphere (December to April at the habitat, southern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1728 mm of 2251 mm) falls in December to April, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 25.7 °C against a yearly mean of 23.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: June to October.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2251 mm a year, wettest February at 474 mm, driest August at 44 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2251 mm a year at the habitat, 1728 mm of it December to April. Wettest month February at 474 mm, driest August at 44 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1547 mm to 2629 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 42 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 42 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 8.2 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 8.2 °C, the absolute minimum 3.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 15.0 °C in July (across the envelope cells 12.3 °C to 17.4 °C), warmest day 28.9 °C in December (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 8.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 21 °C in Jul to 29 °C in Dec; mean night from 15 °C in Jul to 23 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 2251 mm of rain a year, most in Feb. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 16 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 3.5 °C and the 99th-percentile day 40.4 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°20°30°40°50°40.4° 99th-percentile day (undated)3.5° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 24–42RH 62–68 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 16 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C29 / 28–3028 / 27–2928 / 27–2826 / 25–2624 / 22–2422 / 21–2221 / 20–2222 / 21–2325 / 24–2627 / 26–2828 / 27–2929 / 28–30
Night °C23 / 21–2523 / 21–2522 / 20–2421 / 18–2319 / 16–2116 / 13–1815 / 12–1716 / 13–1818 / 15–2020 / 18–2222 / 19–2323 / 21–25
Rain mm439 / 317–525474 / 346–567375 / 247–450248 / 127–292116 / 73–17054 / 42–8148 / 38–8744 / 30–5957 / 36–6862 / 47–79142 / 103–165192 / 135–212
DLI38 / 36–4035 / 33–3734 / 33–3530 / 28–3025 / 24–2524 / 23–2425 / 24–2529 / 28–3037 / 36–3841 / 41–4242 / 41–4341 / 40–42
RH %66 / 65–7068 / 66–7266 / 64–7067 / 63–7166 / 62–6964 / 61–6663 / 60–6563 / 60–6562 / 60–6562 / 60–6564 / 62–6765 / 63–68

Each figure is the median across the 16 grid cells holding the 16 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2168:6518 (-18.425, 145.925). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 3.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 8.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 40.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 16 distinct grid cells holding the 16 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2168:6518 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -18.50_145.625, lapse-corrected -423 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 92 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeQueensland
Kew's description“perennial” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-18.4, 146.1 · in the densest population, 25 records (96% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 26 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 20 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 5 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 26 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Matt B, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6); (c) Hugo Innes, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Drosera adelae, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

An S‐like ribonuclease gene is used to generate a trap‐leaf enzyme in the carnivorous plant Drosera adelae
Takahiro Okabe, Yoshimoto Iwakiri, Hitoshi Mori, Tomohisa Ogawa (2005) · FEBS Letters
Droseraceae germination patterns and their taxonomic significance
John G. Conran, V. Gunta Jaudzems, N. D. Hallam (1997) · Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Organ-specific expression and epigenetic traits of genes encoding digestive enzymes in the lance-leaf sundew (Drosera adelae)
Naoki Arai, Yusuke Ohno, Shinya Jumyo, Yusuke Hamaji (2020) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Root anatomy of three carnivorous plant species
Lubomı́r Adamec, Pavel Kohout, Karl Benes (2006) · Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
Structural analysis of the gene encoding Drosera adelae S-like ribonuclease DA-I
Takahiro Okabe, Chika FUTATSUYA, Osamu Tanaka, Takashi Ohyama (2005) · Journal of Advanced Science
Expression and function of an S1-type nuclease in the digestive fluid of a sundew, Drosera adelae
Meng Yu, Naoki Arai, Tadahiro Ochiai, Takashi Ohyama (2022) · Annals of Botany
Structural and functional characterization of chitinase from carnivorous plant Drosera adelae
Kazunari Yoneda, Yuki Naruse, Yusaku Suizu, Tomohiro Araki (2025) · FEBS Open Bio
Droseraceae germination patterns and their taxonomic significance
JG Conran (1997) · Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Deoxyribonuclease secreted from an insectivorous plant Drosera adelae.
Takahiro Okabe, Hiroki Mori, Takashi Ohyama (1997) · PubMed
An account of Drosera section Prolifera
Richard Nunn, Greg Bourke (2017) · Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Drosera 203 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.