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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Drosera pygmaea DC.

D. pygmaea DC. Prodr. 1, 1824, 317.

Type locality: Bowen Id, S. Australia, Caley.

Stock extremely short. Lvs radical, appressed, rosulate; stipules scarious, up to 5 mm. long, trifid; segs laciniate; petioles flattened, glab., up to 6mm. long; lamina subpeltate, suborbicular, 1·5-2 mm. diam., clad in stalked glandular hairs. Peduncles solitary or few, filiform, up to 2.5 cm. long; fl. solitary, tetramerous. Sepals connate at base, ± oblong, up to 2 mm. long; petals white, up to 2.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Style branches 4, clavate. Capsule 4-valved, elliptic-oblong.

DIST.: Peaty and boggy ground. N. North Auckland Peninsula southwards to Waimarino Plain, local. S. Southern western fiords, subalpine; Bluff Hill.

FL.- FT. 11-2.

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