Another recent paper on _Drosera_ just hit the newsstands:
SEINE, R. & BARTHLOTT, W.:
"Some Proposals on the Infrageneric Classification of _Drosera_ L."
TAXON 43:583-589 (1994)
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Infrageneric subdivision of this second largest genus of cp is revisited.
The news:
_Drosera_regia_ is separated as a distinct SUBGENUS (Hi Alastair! I have
always said your sect.Secundistyla is a subgenus, haven4t I?). BTW, this
idea is simply extracted from the palynological study of TAKAHASHI & SOHMA;
no cloning & sequencing required!
Sects.Bryastrum, Coelophylla, Lasiocephala, Meristocaules (!!!), Phycopsis
(!!!!), Ptycnostigma, & Thelocalyx are included in subgen. Drosera. This
view needs further revision urgently.
Arachnopus (!), Arcturia (!!!!!), Cripterisma, Proliferae (!),
Psychophila(!), Stelogyne (!!!), & Vagae are just lumped into sect.
Drosera. (Alastair, I agree with you that this cannot be supported in this
way).
Anyway, the paper is fun to read, and it does spare me a protologue for
subgen. Regiae (I would have called it "Regina", as subgeneric names in
_Drosera_ were always a singular form in the past, but this is just
minutiae) for my key...
Kind regards, have fun!
Jan