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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Droseraceae
Drosera pygmaea

Citation: DC., Prod. 1:317 (1824).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tiny sundew.

Description:
Scapes 1-4, 5-45 mm long, very slender, glabrous, 1-flowered; sepals 4, oblong to elliptic, glabrous, 1.5-2 mm long; petals elliptic-spathulate, 2-2.5 mm long, white; styles 4, filiform, the stigmas clavellate.

Published illustration: L. Diels (1906)Pflanzenr. 26:figs 6B, 22.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Jan., April.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Not Applicable

Author: Not yet available


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