page_title: Drosera hookeri
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Drosera hookeri / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of flower buds of Drosera hookeri from Tom Gibson Nature Reserve, Tasmania, Australia
context_page_description: Drosera hookeri, the grassland sundew is an shortly erect perennial tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. Drosera hookeri is found in south-eastern Australia. Although the holotype was collected in Tasmania, its distribution also includes Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. This species has a complex taxonomic history, and its specific epithet acknowledges the original recognition of the taxon by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Hooker originally called his species Drosera foliosa Hook.f. ex Planch. in 1848, a name that was illegitimate as it had previously been used to describe a different species. The nomenclature of D. hookeri was later clarified and the taxonomic concept significantly broadened to include most of the south-eastern Australian and New Zealand forms of the species complex that includes Drosera peltata.
  Like other tuber sundews, D. hookeri aestivates as an underground tuber to survive summer drought.
context_section_description: Drosera hookeri is a perennial tuberous herb. Its underground tuber is white and generally found 2 – 5 cm under the soil surface. Its aerial parts range from 5 – 10 cm in height, normally yellow-green to distinctly yellow in colour. Drosera hookeri has a well-developed rosette of lunate to semi-orbicular leaves at the soil surface, as well as lunate cauline leaves. The aerial stem is normally branched multiple times from the base of the plant. Flowers are  white, and can appear very close to the basal leaf rosette. The seeds are black and cylindrical.
caption: Drosera hookeri flower buds
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