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Family: Droseraceae
Drosera peltata

Citation: Thunb., Diss. Bot. Drosera 7 (1797).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pale sundew.

Description:
Tuberous herb, vertical stolon 3-6 cm long; stem erect, usually simple, sometimes shortly branched, 6-50 cm long, glabrous; leaves usually in a flat basal rosette and cauline; basal leaves 5-10, the lamina spathulate-flabellate, 4-7 mm long, peltate, on a petiole 10-15 mm long; cauline leaves alternate, the lamina broadly crescentic, 4-7 mm long, with caudate angles, peltate, on petiole 10-17 mm long.

Inflorescence a 1-sided raceme, 5-10-flowered; peduncle usually c. 2 cm long but up to 50 cm; pedicels 8-10mm long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm long, densely pubescent or glabrous, ciliate, laciniate or dentate; petals obovate, 4-7 mm long, white; styles 3, 0.4-0.6 mm long, each divided into many slender segments.

Seeds 0.2-0.6 mm long.

image of FSA1_Drosera_pel2.jpg Drosera peltata
Image source: fig 202k in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Drosera_pel.jpg Drosera peltata calyx and habit.
Image source: fig 202b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 340.

Distribution:    All States.   Japan; India.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.


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