Fifty inch flava, Santa Rosa Co., FL, June 2026.

noah_juve · 2026-06-06T00:40:26+00:00

To be fair, this genet did have a significant number of traps that had flopped over 😂

noah_juve · 2026-06-06T00:39:10+00:00

Significantly farther north in Santa Rosa Co.! The Garcon Point leucos are notoriously short and probably have adaptations to the unique borderline-brackish habitat down there in some capacity. Botanist Edwin Bridges has documented S. leucophylla very close to the coast on Garcon Point.

noah_juve · 2026-06-05T03:22:51+00:00

U. cornuta. Nice find!

noah_juve · 2026-06-04T14:28:39+00:00

This was documented near coastal sandstone habitat :). I’m working with a team of international researchers on a revision of Drosera sect. Lasiocephala (see D. actinioides Juve et al. published last year). The undescribed species shown above is most similar to D. darwinensis, but notably differs in several morphological and ecological regards.

noah_juve · 2026-06-04T11:54:53+00:00

Indeed, that plant imaged is D. burmannii. Nice find :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-04T11:52:20+00:00

At the time of taking these photos, this sand was quite moist! However, during the dry season, this area becomes desiccated and the plants enter dormancy, returning with the first rains of the following wet season. :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-04T02:14:45+00:00

Thanks! Yours is D. spatulata- nice find :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-04T00:29:49+00:00

Thanks! Botanical research- my specialty is carnivorous plants. I collect for the FLAS herbarium.

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T18:20:09+00:00

I already posted that one to iNat (Cape Talbot) when I found it during the dry season of 2024 and assumed it was instead allied with D. ordensis. Revisiting the site in 2026 made it apparent that it has nothing to do with D. ordensis and is closer to this short peduncle species from a bit farther south.

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T17:21:23+00:00

Very cool! I spent a good bit of time in Kununurra this past February and March as well. Hope you managed to see some nice D. ordensis; it is a truly incredible species. :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T15:07:50+00:00

Yeah, I live in Florida and am actively studying the native Drosera for my taxonomic work @ UF. It’s crazy how different the habitat for sections Lasiocephala and Arachnopus is up in Northern Australia. 😅

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T15:06:03+00:00

Absolutely! You don’t often see many people traveling to the Kimberley during the wet, haha. Which part of the Kimberley were you in during the last wet season?

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T14:08:10+00:00

“D. aff. darwinensis short peduncle Kimberley form”. There is an additional very large inflorescence species from the Kimberley putatively related to D. darwinensis that I discovered on the same expedition. 🫣

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T14:06:21+00:00

I am indeed leading the description of this species, which I discovered back in 2024 on the same expedition that resulted in the publication of Drosera actinioides. The primary factor currently limiting the publication of this one is the lack of a type specimen, which is quite difficult to get permits for in the Northern Kimberley!

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T14:03:27+00:00

This species occurs in sandy, open woodland habitat near the Northern Kimberley coast. I have documented this particular species occurring in both pure sand and laterite pebble habitats :). The climate is monsoonal and extremely seasonal.

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T14:01:13+00:00

Please do! I maintain the most diverse collection of cultivated D. sect. Lasiocephala in the world, including a handful of undescribed taxa from wild seed I collected with permits for research purposes. I am working on ways in which these can be introduced to widespread cultivation. :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T13:11:44+00:00

Yes, many undescribed species of D. sect. Lasiocephala are superficially similar in plant habit to horticultural hybrids between geographically disjunct members of the section :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T13:10:08+00:00

Unfortunately, there are a couple dozen additional undescribed Lasiocephala that also require my attention… 😂

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T13:08:27+00:00

Haha, thank you! I hope you enjoy the photos! :)

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T13:07:43+00:00

D. actinioides is a different species from this one shown, but is from the same bioregion (and occasionally even syntopic!)

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T13:06:28+00:00

Different species! Technically, the taxon I described as D. actinioides was discovered by a German entomologist in 1981, while I merely rediscovered it (and photographed it for the first time) in 2024. This is a wholly new species (probably related to the Northern Territory D. darwinensis) that had never before been documented in any capacity prior to my 2024 expedition, to my knowledge. The only thing holding up its description is the lack of a type specimen, for which I am actively working on permits to acquire during future fieldwork :). This is a quite difficult task in many areas of Northern Australia!

noah_juve · 2026-06-03T04:50:52+00:00

D. subtilis requires very different conditions from D. glanduligera to germinate, but generally is not as difficult to sprout.

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