Range: Lake Pleasant View, SW Australia

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This relatively newly described species is an extreme endemic, only known currently from its type location where it grows along lake margins and low-lying wet spots in sandy soils. Commonly, it’s found underneath Melaleuca paperbark treas. Plants may reach 1.6 cm across, forming tiny rosettes of fairly broad, stumpy paddle-shaped leaves. Petioles are glabrous and broad, slightly wider toward the middle and notably narrower just before the very round, flattened lamina. Coloration is generally green with red lamina, or yellow lamina and red tentacles. Inflorescences are up to 5 cm in height, slender and wiry with sparse glandular hairs along their length, and sport up to 6 blooms. Each flower is rarely more than half a centimeter across, with tiny obovate-cuneate pink petals. This species is suspected to have developed from a natural D. australis x pulchella hybrid, but has become distinct from pulchella to which it is most similarly built by its overall tinier size and small flowers with tapered clavate white stigmas.

 

Cultivation: Grow in a 3:2 sand/peat soil, kept moist and moderately humid with cool temperatures of 45-65°F through the growing season. During summer allow temperatures to rise, but avoid letting the soil dry as dormant plants can be difficult to reawaken. Sow seeds or gemmae on soil surface (seeds may require special treatments such as GA3 soaking or hot stratification to germinate), and grow in strong artificial light to full sun.

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Lifespan and reproduction: short-lived perennial. Reproduces through seeds and gemmae, and may be propagable via leaf pullings.

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Sources: https://www.carnivorousplants.org/cp/taxonomy/PygmyDrosera/pg1#Droseradepauperata

Lowrie et al. (2017). Drosera of the World Vol. 2. Redfern Natural History Publications.