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Drosera burmanni Vahl

Droseraceae · China South-Central, Hainan +27 · listed by its genus as a carnivorous plant

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Drosera burmanni, photograph Jan Wieneke, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDrosera burmanni, photograph Michal Rubeš & Výstava Darwiniany, CC BY 3.0 cz, via Wikimedia CommonsDrosera burmanni, photograph Jayesh Patil from Mumbai, India, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDrosera burmanni, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDrosera burmanni, photograph Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDrosera burmanni, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Drosera burmanni, the tropical sundew, is a small, compact species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. Its natural geographical range includes the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia (India, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and China's Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Fujian provinces) and Australia. It is one of the fastest trapping sundews as well, and its leaves can curl around an insect in only a few seconds, compared to the minutes or hours it takes other sundews to surround their prey.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Drosera burmanni", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Drosera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a carnivorous plant, listed under the genus Drosera in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “annual or biennial”.

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Drosera in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “annual or biennial”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, New Caledonia, Caroline Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual or biennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Jan Wieneke, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Michal Rubeš & Výstava Darwiniany, CC BY 3.0 cz, via Wikimedia Commons; Jayesh Patil from Mumbai, India, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Drosera 260 in the reference

Drosera aberrans Drosera aberrans Scented sundew Photo: CC BY, Peter CrowcroftDrosera acaulis Drosera acaulis Droseraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Chris Vynbos Drosera actinioides Droseraceae Drosera adelae Drosera adelae Droseraceae Photo: CC BY, Matt BDrosera admirabilis Drosera admirabilis Droseraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, BrentbenedumDrosera affinis Drosera affinis Slender-leaved Sundew Photo: CC BY, Kristof ZyskowskiDrosera alba Drosera alba White Sundew Photo: CC0, author not statedDrosera albonotata Drosera albonotata Droseraceae Photo: CC BY, Hugo InnesDrosera aliciae Drosera aliciae Alice sundew Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van BerkelDrosera allantostigma Drosera allantostigma Pygmy Sundew Photo: CC BY-SA, DevOhmDrosera amazonica Drosera amazonica Droseraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonDrosera andersoniana Drosera andersoniana Droseraceae Photo: CC BY, Hugo Innes all 261 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Drosera burmanni var. dietrichiana; Drosera indica var. dietrichiana; Drosera dietrichiana. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Droseraceae
Described by
Vahl
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +26
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Drosera burmanni Vahl (plant_name_id 64278), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 321803-1, POWO 321803-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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